https://spectator.com/article/tv-doesnt-ruin-childhood-but-phones-might/
But at the same time, the screen-based entertainments of today aren’t the same as television. They are precision-engineered to be neurologically addictive. And Cottrell-Boyce puts his finger on something when he says: “There’s a big difference between happiness and distraction, and quite a lot of the time that we spend in leisure online we’re in a kind of suspended state. It literally passes the time, but that’s not what happiness is.” He describes the YouTube and TikTok content that so absorbs our children as “sedation” rather than entertainment. Shades of Soma in Brave New World.
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