I did a BIG long historical deep dive into the history of moral panics surrounding kids and media/technology and tried to unpack the real motivations behind the latest freakout over kids and smartphones!

I worked on this video for months and it’s the first in a multi part series I’m launching covering the current moral panic around kids and tech.

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@taylorlorenz It is not exactly a "youth" moral panic, but I was introduced to Plato writing about how writing would rot people's brains. You can find a translation at:

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/plato/dialogues/benjamin-jowett/text/single-page

, ctrl+f for "Naucratis"; the long paragraph is all you need.

Not an exact match, but I love how it's 2400 years old...