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The Good Fight

Freya India on How to Free the Anxious Generation

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.6907 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Yascha and Freya discuss why so many young people came to prefer the online world to real life. Freya India is the author of the Substack GIRLS. She is also a staff writer for Jonathan Haidt’s Substack After Babel.  In this week’s conversation, Yascha and Freya discuss the great sense of social isolation and anxiety felt by so many young people; why the life lived online is a shoddy substitute for the real thing; and how the difficulties ascribed to social media addiction among young people often can be traced to a broader desire for wisdom and meaning. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected]  Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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When you kind of strip back what's happening there, young people are looking for wisdom.

0:38.3

They're looking for guidance on how to have a relationship. They're craving some kind of structure of how to orient themselves and their lives.

0:44.3

And so I think all of the trends that young people get obsessed with online,

0:50.3

you can trace it back to some kind of void that's not being met here.

0:59.0

So, for example, older generations now tend not to give advice about relationships.

1:03.0

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

1:16.0

Well, it has been a long week. Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Tuesday. We released a special episode of the podcast with Francis Fukuyama

1:22.5

trying to make sense of the political events of this week a couple of days ago. If you haven't listened to that yet,

1:28.9

I encourage all of you to do so. But with all of the coverage of politics in the weeks running

1:35.9

up to the election, and given the fact that we're obviously going to be talking a lot more

1:40.1

about politics, about populism, about Trump, about the state of the world in the coming weeks and months,

1:46.8

I thought we could all do with a little bit of a breather.

1:50.9

So today, we are releasing an episode that I recorded a few weeks ago with the great Freya India.

1:58.5

Freya is a young writer living in London, who has had a lot of success with a really

2:04.1

interesting podcast called Girls. She writes about the way in which social media has really

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