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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

by Jonathan Haidt

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Dec 25, 2024 08:52AM

“Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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“...loneliness is not a function of solitude.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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“It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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“They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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“life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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