We're Heading for Civilizational Collapse - Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt is an American social psychologist and author. His main areas of study are the psychology of morality and moral emotions. Haidt has written several best-selling books for general audiences, including The Happiness Hypothesis (2006) examining the relationship between ancient philosophies and modern science, The Righteous Mind (2012) on moral politics, and The Coddling of the American Mind (2018) on rising political polarisation, mental health, and college culture. In 2024, he published The Anxious Generation, arguing that the rise of smartphones and overprotective parenting have led to a "rewiring" of childhood and a rise in mental illness.

00:00 Trailer
00:33 The great rewiring of childhood
04:03 We have to delay access to technology
05:30 We're disrupting neural development
06:49 Fragmentation of attention
09:32 Online socialising is no substitute for real connections
12:07 Meaninglessness has shot up since 2012
12:58 Online Bullying
15:00 The rise of sextortion
16:35 Social media has become less social
18:07 Give kids back play-based childhood
20:50 Gen Z has been irreversibly damaged
22:09 But there is hope for Gen Z
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28:30 The fragility of Gen Z employees
29:53 How will the anxious generation shape the world?
35:58 They think “speech is violence”
36:24 The need for group cohesion
40:35 The plummeting of mental health
46:30 The devastating impact of p*rn
51:14 We're heading for civilizational collapse
52:15 It's a collective action problem
53:08 Jonathan's 4 steps to fix this
55:08 Chaos pushes people towards authoritarianism
58:24 Why I’m no longer a progressive
1:00:06 Wisdom from John Stuart Mill
1:02:23 What’s the one thing we’re not talking about?

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