is this the most influential book of the past decade? it almost feels like a psyop
>>25343488ngl i thought it didn't go far enough
>>25343498but haidt is really just yet another inoffensive pop sci writer so i shouldn't have expected much
>>25343488>influentialHow? He's diagnosing something everyone is watching happen in plain sight. No serious thought, just capitalizing on a defect of postmodernity to get on the NYT best seller list and secure his retirement fund. Not literature, just more slop for Barnes and Noble.
>>25343488Equivalent to Mark Manson.
>>25343513because the book and the author by themselves were instrumental in organizing the movement that is currently pressuring governments around the world to put age limits on social media usage and internet access more generally
>>25343513His book the Righteous Mind was good.
>>25343538To be fair underage kids shouldn't be online.
Social media with all its flaws brings the unlimited ability to share opinions that call out propaganda and horrible people in power, and governments are stumped by this, their only real threat by now. They want to ban it for those under 18 because those are the mushy brain years where they can make the poisonous dystopia we live in seem normal, healthy, and worth defending through institutionalized brainwashing.
>>25343625social media has made the poisonous dystopia we live in seem normal to them. have you never talked to a zoomer?
