McLuhan's Limits

Spiritually reconsidering the experience of the environment.

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The thoughtful and intelligent Jonathan Haidt has a book coming, bearing the resonant title The Anxious Generation:

Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by wh…