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Jiang attributes the modern surge in depression, eating disorders, suicidal tendencies, and anxiety partly to lost divine connection intensified by phones, social media, and internet-mediated childhood.
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Childhood
Middle-class identity is built around education, achievement, and morality, including sexual self-control and the capacity to give children a childhood.
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Middle-class identity is built around education, achievement, and morality, including sexual self-control and the capacity to give children a childhood.
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Rousseau's Emile argues that children should not be positively educated before reason develops; early education should be negative, preserving health and avoiding vice rather than teaching abstractions.
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Jiang says the modern idea of childhood comes from Rousseau's claim that children should be allowed to play until around age twelve.
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"Yeah. So, it's like, for example, a lot of people develop cognitive disabilities after a lot of, like you said, being put into schools,..."
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"Okay, yeah, okay. So, let's clarify, okay? So, in China, in the United States, everywhere in the world, we're seeing a massive surge in..."
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"discuss, what the middle class will do is they will slowly adopt the Enlightenment principles of reason, debate, and progress. Okay? That's how the..."
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"I want my children to be better than me. Okay? If you're a peasant, you don't believe your children will live a better life...."
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"...more sexually pure, but also you have a new idea called childhood. If you are a poor person, your child at age 6 starts..."
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"...middle class can do is give his or her child a childhood. Okay? The modern concept of childhood comes from this period when we're..."
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"faculties have developed for while it is blind it cannot see the torch you offer it nor can it follow through the vast expanse..."
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"...of 12. and guess what guys this is the idea of childhood okay childhood children should be allowed to play until the age of..."
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"...think for himself or herself okay so the very idea of childhood comes from rousseau and this is this is an idea that a..."
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"...to them. There's even like one of my best friends from childhood. His unit was near Bosnia. And the Serbian troops from Bosnia were..."
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"...coin, right? They're bundled together, okay? Another question is, imagine Achilles' childhood and you said that Achilles, when he was young, he was probably..."
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"...to you so that you're able to imagine his past, his childhood, and you're able to experience what he experienced. What's even more powerful..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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