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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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When young people rally together around a political cause, from opposing the Vietnam War in the 1960s through peak periods of earlier climate activism in the 1970s and 1990s, they become energized, not dispirited or depressed.
“Academic reception of the book’s thesis was nuanced and initially somewhat critical, as was perfectly appropriate. No scientific claim is ever beyond debate. And no analytical debate is ever really concluded.”
― Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
― Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
“No creature is safe in a world in which any one of mankind has limitless gold. That way lies only chaos.”
― The Poisoned King
― The Poisoned King
“God, he looks awful, which is honestly for the best. Nobody should look like him, it’s indecent. Redistribution is necessary, like a wealth tax for bone structure.”
― Twelfth Knight
― Twelfth Knight
“That was a pity though. Thirty-two is in many ways a far better age than twenty-three.”
― The Fox Wife
― The Fox Wife
“he’d read enough stories to know you never looked back on your way out of hell.”
― Ninth House
― Ninth House
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