I didn't realize suicide was a killer!
The Darwinian culling continues apace.
This article reads as just one more reason to keep WBill Jr. away from Instagram, Facebook, etc etc etc.
Another factor that could be playing a role: the cultural nihilism that causes people to question the whole point of living.
The rotten part of the Apple. Since adolescents are so susceptible to impulsive behavior and peer pressure perhaps restrictions should be put on teen I phone use , the way restrictions are put on guns and alcohol. Just joking. Suspect the suicides have much more to do with the emptiness of the neo pagan culture and drug use.
A few comments:
1. Is that because there are more suicides or fewer homicides? Or a little of both?
2. Suicide is often (not always, but often) a “disease” of self-centeredness. It is rare in populations that are struggling for their very existence. It is more common in populations that have a very comfortable existence.
3. Why is it that teens are obsessed with trying to belong to groups where the people don’t like them rather than looking for groups where they will fit in? As adults, most of us are not trying to hang out with celebrities. Instead, we are members of groups with whom we share common interests.
Smartphones?
But before the press said that the source of problems for youth was role-playing games...or comic books.
It couldn’t possibly be being unsupervised with parents who are seldom home.
Good article and not surprising. I’ve read a couple of Jean Twenge’s books and recommend them.
I blame the growth of the collectivist state and the rotten beliefs that grow with it. Suicides go up and babies go down everywhere its tried. Of course your typical leftist pundit is never going to get it.
This sounds like the theme of a horror movie. Evil smartphones are finding a way to kill teens!!!!
Applying the logic of the gun-hating crowd, we should consider regulating cell phones. And Facebook.
This is the least spiritual generation in our history. They are hopeless. It shows.
The smartphone has nothing to do with it. Social media came about as people lost the ability to interact with each other (in the flesh, of course). The alienation is the problem. The stupidphone makes it easier to withdraw from ANY contact with a human.
Rip the damn things from their hands, and they still won’t be able to interact with the person sitting next to them in the dentist’s office.
They need to get a life however they would do well in California.
Today’s kids don’t get enough time with just themselves to figure out who they are.
Bill Nye says “Don’t fear the reaper”.
Number of teen Christians down, suicides up. Happens every time.
Guns don’t kill people, and neither do cellphones.
All you mostly hear about is the drug OD’S. What the news fails to mention is that it is ILLEGAL DRUGS, they just blame it on opioid crisis, to get more Tax $$ to fight a FAKE OPIOID CRISIS. Mexico, Afghanistan and China biggest importers of these ILLEGAL DRUGS.
suicide, hopelessness, despair. How is a kid to know just what they are able to accomplish when everything is handed to them without them earning it? They know it was given to them for nothing. It makes them think they can’t do it.