In 2012 Mark Zuckerberg announced he hoped facebook would quote rewire the way people spread and consume information as well as transform many of our core institutions and industries. A development that recently made that possible was the rise of the smart phone which helped us not only check on our High School Friend means but surf the internet, watch movies, share pictures, play games and in short, be destructive from the rest of the world around us. They clearly read wired the quote. In 2008, is google making us stupid . Because of the good old days. By 2000 times, its worth asking, are smart phones and social media thinking is antisocial . Are they disconnecting us from families and communities . We are fortunate to have with us doctor jonathan hite. Ethical leadership near diversity and author as the modern truth and agent wisdom. The american mind. Good intentions and bad ideas for setting the generation of for ferrier was recently great we were childhood causing an epidemic of Mental Illness. Since 2018 starting social media the decline of Mental Health. In 2019 inducted into arts and sciences important talks and now hes here first drink lecture on a root decline of the playbased childhood in the 1980s and the cell phone based culture not, a cause for the client and Mental Health and mental degradation. Families and policymakers can alleviate these problems. He offers insights into childhood, human nature and Psychological Development that so relevant become a dangerous to look directly into them. We are fortunate to have today to discuss only our Mental Health but for lives. Will deliver remarks on hers caused by social media for about 20 to 25 minutes in the drag on stage for discussion doctor Christine Rosen focusing on American History society and culture and feminism. Also a columnist for magazine a proposed of the commentary is in progress and develop university of virginia advanced studies in culture. Author or coauthor of many books in both chapters in the fall to publish the extinction of experience being human and the disembodied world they will converse for about 25 minutes and then we will turn to audience questions. I hope you will join us for refreshments and conversation in the gallery want to stampede so if you can get a copy, you are welcome to one. Please put on your phones and your hands together for doctor height. Thank you so much as a perfectly set up covered a lot of things we are going to be talking about today. Today i decided to do Something Different because i was reflecting on my ties to a. I. 2007 influenced me and help me to get where i am today was a standard pricing democrat social scientist and i thought Enemy Territory but he seems like a nice guy. [laughter] how bad could it be . [laughter] came up was treated well and the conversations were great and i got to know him we really become friends over the years but that was 2006 or seven right around when i started working on right just which is about wiry polarized divided by logics and religion . That began trying to understand conservatives and libertarians and opened my mind and maybe a better social scientist. Good ideas will over and what we can do so i have a lot of materials i have not shown before. I can summarize the book and to develop ways to first, playbased childhood which is what we have had from literally millions of years in all mammals america between 1980 and 2010 all of a sudden phone based topic selected detent in 2015. Thats what i think gen z over the edge. Another way to say this to protect our children in the real world with varied experience and under protected them online with no protections of any kind with children but and indirectly, i began taking about the righteous mind, i decided to teach a course at the university of virginia in 2004 i was in new york city at the time and i stopped into the store went to the political puree section is a big book of conservatism and i pulled it off, this could be interesting and i started into the introduction and was so clear and powerful, it made sense to me as a social scientist, identify the book and did walk out with it but jerry is actually here in the audience, a wonderful intellectual historian mark some of the ideas that got me right away trying to understand psychological differences, it gives you an overview, penalties imposed on the conservatives are supposed to protect the authority because the believe society cannot flourish without them. Restraints imposed by institutions are necessary to constrain passion and a moment later he says famous quote. Restraints on as well as liberties on their right. And it is a surprising statement so i was just thinking about that writing the righteous mind in which i can have Chapter Eight conservatives have an advantage in american politics, they seem to know some things about the buttons often failed to realize so i contrasted 1 million based on this in which all individuals are people treat the possible. What i found presently by appeal to i favorite so i said imagine an contrast to the millions of society, society not individuals but organically over time but found a way to live together, finding themselves together so i suggest an intellectual hero this way of thinking because he warned that man cannot become attached higher aim and submit to a rule something about along to free himself from social pressure demoralized result. The ideas of their now going to come back in about ten minutes because it really solves a puzzling to you so my standard. Like to do is show you what is a cap 3. 5 only institutions and the rising phone based childhood. Even in the book some things begin getting into this stuff and im realizing my deed third equally important feature of what happened to all of us. What happened to americans born after 1995, okay great. Keep me honest, ask for about your questions especially with objection, i think i got something wrong, please tell me so i can get better. Representative data of the population. As comes in and comes up is really psychological. There much higher rates of siding and depression. His rates of anxiety and depression go way up. Its just gen zs of different age groups detent its not all the folks that are terrible for some behaved like this. These are major depression in the last year girls implement on the top oec be clear, theyre getting more present interest ultimately relatively they are getting more than one and a half times more depressed. Dressing feature because the data came in about 200 gracie is a didnt do much depression and anxiety by 2019 and it kept going up. Some people challenge me a changing diagnostics, is allie here . A wonderful psychiatrist who read the book, its a little. In any case, she was concerned about lowering position and all present terms and that has happened. Some have said its a moral panic, young people are just more likely to admit it. If that was true, it wouldnt show up in behavior. When we look at im sorry, technically Emergency Rooms for non stable selfharm. This is where you see the most dramatic increases so the girls are 188 . They cut themselves at the rate that girls used to 20 years ago receipt the same for suicide. Once we got through a series of articles way up with an astonishing 7 increase in a single year as if something happened did the 12. It is not just that, it is the same pattern hospitalizations for medical records uk and canadian data, highest good. The youngest one is to be the happiest. This is a universal pattern, the happiest people have always been those who are young adults in their late teens and early 20s and this was true until about ten years ago all over the world. I just got a paper setting this for the paper yesterday. Curve is over. But its not getting the same way so these are fairly certain which of the study, sometimes there are no credit at all for my life as no purpose. What we see is a small difference between liberals and conservatives until 2010 long known and discussed what they are happier this finding liberals are more neurotic and creative, conscientious so well known personality differences you walk in, i know this is not a leftwing group so these things have long been known but they are usually pretty small until 2010. Heres what happens. There are several status that shows the same thing. In april 2020, all concerned about covid and the question was doctor the provider that they ever told you about your Mental Health problem . You can see women on average mark likely in age great but young people are more likely to be told that elderly people can there is a more diagnosis and recent decades so two factors that. The data for liberals remake interaction liberals at all points. Younger liberals are more likely to say yes and mars are conservatives. We see meal water among nobles and receipt for young women limited to white women on the left, a majority of them have been told they have the whole condition. Something going on but really affected growth in 2010 for smoke. Why is this happening at the same time in 2013 in many countries the biggest impact on young girls and liberals . Whats going on . Be my only theory that can explain it, this must have been the financial crisis in 2008 which didnt do anything for years and young girls artist. I think this is what explains it especially if i could factor. Show you to illustrate, this is seen in some ways to demonstrate how quickly changed. I want you to think about the agent which you are given freedom and you can walk out the door and say goodbye to your parents, your on your bicycle worker can no adult supervision. If it wasnt true until seventh grade, the number is 12. Everyone forgot, pick the number. Only raise your hand if you were born before 1984. Im going to have you all applicable. So 68. If you want in fourth grade, something was weird about your family doing . So bikes are great everyone is out. Now the and also raise your hand if you are a paradox gen z. The crime wave drunk drivers. The sociologist thing because of gas 18 years later and it gets really safe and we decide to dangerous. They will be affected, if our car so okay that is just to show you how radically childhood in american institutions and that is the big question. Kids learn on the playground and adjudication and we decided know more about. I was not enough i strangely rates of Mental Illness, health its actually pretty good, they dont get marked the president dangerous but weakening young people are from crimson about 20 all help break loose to let them realize until i got into the book there were two discrete ways of technology, the first one in the 80s couldnt do much with it and internet crimson but its slow and you put your entrance based on. A lot of biennials, aol and things and it is amazing many of us thought this is incredible; to 21st century and all these programs are coming out so its amazing, it is the second wave is so Different Social Media around 2003, 2004 with facebook compared with smart funk mouth you have young people would notice go home and go aol, they have entire internet in the pocket all the time even in the longterm, the internet and the hands all the time. The great rewiring of childhood an image of what life was like put it . This is what it has become. If you are a boy, you cant go to your friends house. You have to go home alone to your house and then you can play, you have to be alone. If you are a girl, youre spending your time checking on social media posting so is what talbot becomes voluntary. We can see this in another data set, this is the average american of time americans spend with our friends outside of school. Fifteen to 20 portals are spending a lot of time with friends because they are not married, they dont have jobs for the most part, they spent a lot of time with friends. I see my friends now them im busy. Until we get into the 2010 and then look what happens. Im with friends from its for young people only, not for older people. 2019 Data Collected report covid during covid lockdowns, do you see the effect . You dont because he was just a continuation of what was going on before. Gen z was already socially distant by 2019, they only had a little further to go. Even when they Work Together and not relate to got. Actually looking at each other for interaction so thats my general story about what happened to team Mental Health, quiet that happened how it was these two factors. Now we come back to the things i laid out, why is it hitting liberals more than conservatives . A couple days ago we read an article on how israel is one of the happiest purpose of the earth to the floor because israel has very unique sociology rather with nordic countries and this is really talking about intense religion with even with military service and external threats or culture, a lot of things going on at me israelis happy people. They are teams are much happier than our teens are so look into the role of religion, this is longer that churchgoing or religious Services Going on, and not much of a drop in the 20th century. It drops even faster in 2010 but look where it is dropping. These are to say they are covered, they are not saying religion is important, the big changes if you are liberal, if you go to church or synagogue in a sense, you probably dont. The drop even faster in this five year period. Now when we break up by liberal conservatives from holy see is once again the liberals not going to services whereas conservatives are not changing much over 50 years and now when we bring it these questions like sometimes i think im no good at all, how many would agree with what i feel my life is not very so what you find is to say they are conservative liberal and religionist important to them or their family, i cant remember what religion is important to them, they are they dont go up until 2016 wearing the other groups including conservatives or nonreligious they go up much faster and higher. Back the way data is just for males. You always want to look at them differently, separately. The world is even bigger religious girl are not much at all. Less individualism or i should say more sense of duty and responsibility to the family, country, those sorts of things. Where im getting more interested in this is new data that zach and i, sack is this was a brilliant young man who ii hired in 2019, 2020 to help me as a general Research Assistant but hes done an amazing job going to all these data sets and drawing out the lessons and so this is his post. He found what happened in the industry in the door. This is a recent post where were look at europe. Europe is complicated. Nordic countries like the angle countries. The rest of europe is more complicated. Overall, we do see an increase in psychological distress in europe for girls especially. Not as dramatic for boys. When zach dug into it heres what he found. When we break of the countries theres 32 countries in this data set, when we break it up by the countries that are high individualism based on i forget which system, they are the countries listed in yellow, when we break it up and away what we see is that by far the biggest rise is for girl in individualistic countries they are the ones who are washed away when everything moved online. We broke it up by individualism and if we divide the countries by religiosity we see the same story. Here its a different group. Most of the countries are different. We take the top third versus the bottom third. The top third religious countries versus the bottom of the religious countries, we see the same pattern. Largest increases are the low religiosity girls, the ones who were swept away in europe. So again something is going on such that young people and people in individualistic countries like the anglos in the nordic, like individualism and country was atomic the list of happiness. But its in those happy individualistic secular countries that we see by far the greatest decline, especially in secular liberal and liberal girls. And so i get at this a little bit as i finish writing a book up and some things about this third component. I give this quote in Chapter Seven of the book, if this button social order dissolves as will no longer feel that exist, whatever is social and us is the pride of all objective foundation, all the remains is an artificial combination of illusory images, a fantasmic lorry vanishing at the least reflection nothing which can be a goal for our action. That to be some psychic or description of life online. Just stuff, just trivia coming at you 1000 1000 times fasn ever could have before. I conclude Chapter Seven by saying that i believe is what happened in gen z. Less able than any generation in history to put down roots in realworld communities come pocketed by known individuals who will still be there a year later. So i become really interested in the idea especially you fall and david, brilliant thinkers of right and on for many years. Theyve been talking especially in recent years that both are really understood the importance of moral formation constraint, training, mentorship and then putting those reminded me that we also have to really give a strong nod of approval to james hunter who pointed, usually on this case back in the 90s, that you have to have a rich moral matrix in which the people develop if you dont you get very bad results. That i think brings us back to that difference that didnt understand that when i first read it but if it makes a lot more sense now. So thats my presentation. Thats just some new stuff. Its the beginning of discussion. Lets talk. Thank you. [applause] thank you, john. Im sure all of you been following, hes very modest and abuse number one duke times bestselling book this week so if you cannot get the book your i encourage you to get online. I also know for fact his publisher didnt get enough copies of the book. You can get a a print copy and read it slowly away from a screen. I am very glad you started talking about communities. I would encourage all of you to take very seriously this idea of two ways of technological wave, the internet use it was amazing, but all these things, good for us. I would put back a little on that and he think there were people at the time to the rae concerns largely to 90 days concern saying its going on a website where is faced with the same thing as meeting up with your friends . Even email is communicating via email, lets serve, very useful but in general if we agree it was some good some bad, though still nevertheless, no reckoning with what we were giving up at the