Comment on Young people were becoming more anxious long before social media, and we should not be fixated on simplistic explanations that reduce the issue to technical variables, researcher says

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• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I suspect this is part of it, but I also suspect that it’s even little things like more people living in dense cities and spending less time in serene nature.

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  • InevitableList@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Actually near nearsightedness is due to brightness levels being much indoors rather than focal points. Even on cloudy days it’s much brighter outdoors. There’s also evidence that natural light has a calming effect on people.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It was common for kids to have a day without being watched by parents in dense cities a generation ago.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    cities aren’t bad, gtfo with that suburban propaganda

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I was born and raised in the third largest city in North America and still live here. Gtfo of here with your baseless assumptions.

      City life is efficient and culturally awesome, the country and nature naturally induce senses of calm and peacefulness and reduces stress in humans.

      Both of these things can be true, the world is not black and white.

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• tardigrada@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Here on Lemmy, most problems are simply caused by capitalism. Period. It’s all you need to know.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s not just lemmy but anywhere that reasonable people have an accurate perception of reality.

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    • tardigrada@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, and you don’t need to think on your own. Whatever the problem is, the cause is always the same. No mistake possible.

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    • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thanks for the laugh. Wait, you were serious?

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    • zephorah@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sure but most human issues involve multiple variables. Full spectrum discussion offers an even more realistic presentation of the problem. It doesn’t detract to discuss other things, it supplements.

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  • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The fact that you think that’s sarcasm is troubling.

    Name a social problem, and I will tell you how it’s definitely and sanely-proven to be caused by capitalism.

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    • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Okay, I’ll bite: Racial discrimination.

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      • rammer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Racial discrimination is fundamentally created by the innate fear of the Other. But it is supercharged by capitalism. Slave trade was created to create cheap expendable labor force to drive profits. When it was ended segregation and other discriminatory practices were instituted to protect the owners of businesses. These practices were systemic and we are still seeing their results.

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        ever seen the US prison system? American prisons are for-profit and i think they literally qualify as slave labour, and go figure they’d prefer to enslave non-white people.

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• p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It doesn’t help when you have to share the planet with people who have the same power as you and are half as intelligent, who actually enjoy getting fucked by capitalism.

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• Kissaki@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t think that causation is evident or certainly or obviously factual. The negative interpretation is something you learn and internalize from your environment. You seem to already be in it, so I’m sure it may be hard to see an alternative. But I imagine education is neutral. And having zero power is an absolut defeatist mindset that is a conclusion of a lot of input and experience rather than a natural mindset from access to education.

  I’m sure there is an alternative way of life, if the environment were different, if education were different, not less, but a different environment and approach, that people could become concerned but confident and active rather than scared and defeatist.

  You said zero power. But looking back, every big social shift was in situations where individuals felt powerless. I can certainly see and feel powerless. But looking back into history, I feel like that individual conclusion should not be extrapolated to our society overall, and in consequence, ourselves as individuals within that society.

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