How Much Should We Really Be Blaming Our Phones For Every Ill?
It’s very popular, and I mean very popular, to blame phones for most modern societal ills. Jean Twenge of San Diego State University has ostensibly made a cottage industry and huge speaker fees out of blaming phones for everything — and there’s definitely some worth to that argument. Her big thing has always been that depression seemed to start spiking in 2011, which is around “at-scale” smartphones. Most of those arguments are in this article:
Yesterday I got a Trish Harrison Warren newsletter that’s really an interview with some guy Andy Crouch, who is promoting a book. Here’s that newsletter:
Interesting topic, and the Crouch guy begins by explaining his approach:
In “The Life We’re Looking For,” I define a person as a heart-soul-mind-strength complex designed for love. The world we’ve built using technology is less and less good for the most important thing about us, which is our design for love. From the moment we come into the world, what we are most looking for, most in need of, most designed to learn to give and receive from others, is love — intimate, profound, mutual relationships of giving and receiving, even at great cost to ourselves. That is truly what love is. In the psychiatrist Curt Thompson’s beautiful phrase, we’re all “looking for someone looking…
