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It's completely accurate and "phone bad" has always been right, just not because of what boomers say.
It isn't wrong and shouldn't be edgy to point out that phones/social media/whatever are made to be as addictive as possible, and laughing that off as boomer shit has always been a cope imo.
I dunno, this is just anecdotal but phones and other electronics weren't allowed in my school and more than half of the students would stop listening after like five minutes (daydreaming, doodling etc waiting and wishing for the day to end). I feel like its not just phones that is the problem.
edit: but yeah i do agree social media is insanely addictive.
Im very thankful to internet leftists screaming "READ THEORY" for making me read theory. I would have never read anything other than a bit of school textbooks otherwise.
I was a student in both eras and definitely got much worse after I was given my own laptop in college
Kids get distracted naturally, but 24/7 social media definitely makes it so much worse. It's frying your brain, and it's designed to do it.
just because they couldn't use phones at school doesn't mean they can't fry their brains with them at home
Most people in my country didn't have smartphones till around 2013. Before that everyone watched TV at home.
TV's fry your brain too, but phones are tailored to each individual which makes them much more engaging and addictive. In the days of TV you would need to do something else when dad wanted to watch sportsball
Counterpoint: social media has definitely fried attention spans to the point that this is true for many people.
It would be stranger if a large statistical increase in these behaviors throughout the population was due to individual brain chemistries of millions of individuals suddenly starting to act out.
Of course. I think this quote is good for understanding Fisher's position:
It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. If it is true, for instance, that depression is constituted by low serotonin levels, what still needs to be explained is why particular individuals have low levels of serotonin. This requires a social and political explanation; and the task of repoliticizing mental illness is an urgent one if the left wants to challenge capitalist realism.
