Ep 268 | If Americans Seem Crazy, Here’s Why | Jonathan Haidt | The Glenn Beck Podcast
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Summary
Jonathan Haidt, the man behind The Anxious Generation, joins Glenn Beck on the Glenn Beck Show to talk about the dangers of social media and the need to protect our kids. Glenn Beck is a conservative commentator, bestselling author, and social media strategist. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, CNN, and the Wall Street Journal, and is one of the most influential people on both sides of the political aisle.
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This is a movement, and you're part of it, a big part of it.
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So if you believe in what we're doing, you want more people to wake up,
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There may be only one cause that can bring the left and right together again,
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My next guest has been calling out social media companies
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for damaging our children on, quote, an industrial scale.
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I want you to listen to this podcast before you let your 10-year-old download Instagram
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or, you know, God forbid, get them an AI-powered stuffed teddy bear for Christmas.
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When Americans disagree about absolutely everything,
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No, your 10-year-olds are not going to literally die without TikTok either.
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My guest on today's show, the man behind The Anxious Generation,
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The Anxious Generation, How the Great Rewiring of Childhood
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He's a social psychologist and a best-selling author.
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You are a guy who I've been following for a long time
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that I think probably has diagnosed the problem better than anybody else.
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With everything that has been happening in the last couple of weeks
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I think there's a lot of people that are feeling like,
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I can't sit here and tell you that if we do X, Y, and Z,
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before I started working on what phones are doing to kids,
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Many, many factors are causing us to hate each other more.
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Now, both sides are more willing to use undemocratic
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I'd say more dangerous than anything since the Civil War.
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When you say both sides are willing to break the law or whatever,
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I know you are so fair and you look to be super fair.
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And so I'm asking this question for my bias to check me.
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But it seems, Antifa, the really nasty, nasty stuff
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that is tearing our streets apart, burning down our cities,
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and now shooting people when it comes to political,
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when it comes to crazy, I think we all have a share in that.
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But when it comes to political, it does seem to be on the left.
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And a fundamental rule is that we see what we want to see.
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there are many people who have been tracking political violence
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And there were two periods where left-wing violence
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there was just an article in The Atlantic a couple of days ago
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saying a recent study shows that in the last year or two,
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political violence is coming more from the left,
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Now, there are all kinds of fights about what do you include?