Well, and I was your age. There are these realities, yeah,
and we love them. We liked reality. It's because I'm an old dude.
But all of a sudden I find myself really concerned about younger generations and
what's being stolen from them. Today I want to talk about four realities maybe
four, maybe more, that are being stolen from young people. And these
realities don't just mean ideas. They mean concrete things in which the United States
has stood for well ever, with some minor exceptions. But the major change
that's coming and is in fact here now. I don't think it gets discussed
enough, particularly for our kids and grandkids and generations after So good morning to
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so Todd Herman Show is one hundred percent disapproved by big pharma technocrats and tyrants
everywhere. I'm Mountains of Free America. Here's the Emerald City exile God her
Man. Today is a day the Lord has made, and these are the
times to which God has decided we shall live. When I was a young
kid coming up, there were these realities that eluded me, and sometimes I
wish that they never got straightened out. Really, I wish that I'd lived
in the romanticism. Some of the things that I allowed myself to believe.
One of my very favorite stories of that era. When I was a young
kid, a snipper and a snapper and a whipper, we were headed up
above my Grandpa Marrow's property in eastern Washington, and man the myths that were
built around Grandpamorrow. Grandpamorrow, I would told he was a gambler. He
played poker, won his land in a poker game. And I believe this,
and I told my friends, Oh, my, my grandpa was a
great Grandpa was a brilliant poker player. And in fact, Marrow Marrow Park,
you guys know that that's my grandpa's and he won it in poker games.
And we were driving up there one day, my dad and great Grandpa
Morrow, and we got up above his lands probably well not his land,
but his home. He had a whole bunch of acreage. And there was
the Russians that lived up there, and he let them live on his property.
And we drove by and I saw all the these kettles and stuff,
and I said, Dad, what do the Russians make? And my dad
said tea. They make tea. Oh cool Russian tea. I'd like to
try some. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll do that, yeah,
we'll try that, because I know your mom like's tea. So we went
up to peak, up to what my dad had named Cougar Rock, and
great Grandpa he couldn't walk pretty too well at that time. So he and
I, my dad and I went up to Cougar Rock and he told me,
you know, I used to sit up here as a kid and pretend
to be a cougar or mountain lion. And one day Grandpama was going to
sell his property, and you know it's going to go to the family,
and one day may even be a own part of it. So when Grandpa
Marrow died, I was telling my dad, you know, we got to
tell the story about Grandpa went in poker games and stuff. And he said,
wait, you believe that, Yes, you told me Grandpa didn't win
poker games. No, Grandpa was a shipping clerk. He just was good
with money. He saved and he scrimped, and he bought, and then
he homesteaded and he lived affordably. He had his own meat and his own
food, and he had his own water, and he raised crops and he
was a farmer and a shipping clerk. And well, what about the poker
then I said, Dad, the Russians, what did they make it?
Because it was moonshine. Wait, you didn't let me taste moonshine like I
could have had actual, like illegal whiskey. Well I had it, I
never got to taste it. And all these myths that we built up,
I built up, I guess choosing to believe around Grandpamorrow. That came just
tumbling down. And so then I started to ask my dad, did Grandpamorrow
actually come across the country in a covered wagon? Is that real? Yeah?
That happened. Well how do you know? Well, because Grandpa had
the covered wagon and now it's in the Smithsonian Institute. Okay, so that's
real. Did the chickens actually was there a tornado where the chickens were in
such a secure pen that their feathers got blown off? But not that the
chickens they lived but without feathers for a bit. Is that did that happens?
I don't know. I think it's unlikely that the feathers got blown off
chickens and they lived, but maybe so those are all kind of inert,
harmless myths, right. What's being done to gen Z millennials is so much
worse than any of this, because it's myth creating, and it's not for
fun. It's not to have lovable old man, lovable old curmudgeon stories.
It's to change their concept of the place they live, is to change its
obviously to the negative. Well not obviously, but I guess you guess to
the negative. One of the biggest things that's being stolen from young people is
the ability to look skeptically behind the scenes of compassion. So behind the scenes
that compassion works like this, if you understand how Satan works, which so
often he masquerades as an angel of light, then you understand how politics works
that things masquerade as kindness and angel of light. Treatment young people gen z
and Millennials were purposely made into beings who have trouble separating opinion from feelings.
When common core was really pushed down upon this generation. You remember this,
if you went to school during this period of time, they would present paragraphs,
like a couple of paragraphs of really emotive tales. You know, Danielle
wants very much to go to a private school, but her mom says that
she needs to stay in public school because this is the way she can be
inculturated and grandma and grandpa went to public schools, But Danielle's friends go to
private schools, and she feels very left out because they have activities she does
not have. When she talks to her friends about the school she attends,
they sometimes look at her with sad faces, as if to say, well,
yeah, your mom and dad don't love you as much. And question
from the form from the teacher form an opinion about Danielle's parents. Are they
doing the right thing? You can't possibly form an opinion from that. You
can have feelings about it. You can say, wow, suck. I
can see why Daniel's said, I can see why she feels left out.
I can see why she feels less than the other girls who get to go
to the private school. I can see why she's be frustrated with the present.
But you couldn't possibly form an opinion because you do not have any salable
facts like do her parents have the money? Like what sort of private school
is this? Like what are the values of this family? How far away
is the private school? Is it a long drive? Does she have brothers
and sisters who would then want to go to that private school? Does she
fare better in public scho circumstances what I refer to as government schools. So
they set up circumstances in testing that we're constantly changing what opinion is versus feelings.
And then of course the creation of the phrase your truth and my truth,
and this is conspired to create a generation of young people who have trouble
looking skeptically behind acts of kindness that makes them very, very subject to lies
like the open border policy is the only possible way to have any kindness.
It's not kind. It is not kind to sink a life vote. And
your life vote is being sung when I refer to the United States as a
life vote, this is all I mean. We are five percent of the
world's population. In America, we have taken in twenty percent of the world's
displaced peoples, and that's probably likely going to be more now that figure had.
Biden and the people who run him and tell him what to do,
have determined that to destroy the electoral college is to save America. That to
destroy the vote is to save America. That to replace you with them is
to save America. So the first myth that young people had stolen from them
or the reality, is that the great replacement theory The reality is it's not
a theory. This is a tactic that's being practiced. It's a tactic that's
being practiced very very purposely, and it's had incredibly bad effects on something else
that's being stolen from you, which is an economic future. It doesn't mean
that all things are over. Life is not a zero sum game. You
can still be entrepreneurial, You can still work to lift yourself, you can
still provide value that people are willing to pay. God wins in the end.
This isn't a reason to give up. It's just understand something that's being
stolen from you. The Epic Times looked into these employment numbers because now the
government is touting that even post COVID or as they would say, post pandemic,
we're seeing true and real job gains, even when you take into account
jobs that simply came back after the lockdowns. They never say lockdowns, but
they say after the pandemic, as if the flu shut down businesses. So
they're touting these numbers. But the Epic Times look closely into this and they
say a closer look at the household survey of the employment report reveals a more
gloomy picture employment for native born Americans has been in decline for the past four
years. This means that all of the job gains have gone to foreign born
workers, including both legal and illegal immigrants. Put a mental asterisk next to
that. Don't take the image off the screen. They'll take a mental asterisk
with legal and illegal immigrants, because there's a very important point coming back to
the epic times. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of
immigrants, legal and illegal working in the United States grew by three point four
million between February twenty twenty, shortly before the onset of the COVID nineteen nope,
shortly before the onset of the decision to destroy America under the guise of
a flu so February twenty twenty and February twenty twenty four. The number of
US born workers, however, declined by seventy eight thousand during the same period,
so again working United States, an increase in foreign born workers to three
point four million, decline of American workers by seventy eight thousand. In addition,
during the so called Biden administration, there's been approximately twice as many illegal
immigrants as legal immigrants entering the country. According to a study by the Brookings
Institute. So pause from the article. That would indicate that at least twice
as many of these new employees are illegal immigrants. Since the numbers are interchangeable,
there is no reason for companies to not hire illegal imornmants. And add
to this, now you have companies, is it the Tyson's chicken that was
breaking about this that they are bribing illegal immigrants to come to work for them.
There's a gold rush for illegal immigrants because there's a multifaceted theft. Part
of it is the theft of your vote. By watering down the electro college
and creating entire congressional seats that exist only because of illegal immigrants. It's a
back end way of stealing from you your vote. If your gen Z or
millennial, this is a way of watering down your vote. It's a way
of watering down your economic future by lowering the cost of labor forcibly, by
driving in massive amounts of supply of labor. Its lowering standards you have in
the separate country of Washington, the ability to go get a professional license as
an illegal immigrant. Back to the article, that's a big problem. Everything
we just discussed is a big problem, says economist Stephen Moore. Thank gosh,
we have economists to point that out. What we're interested in is how
the economy's working for the American citizens. So we're distorting the job market with
all the illegal immigrants. That's what I just said. Mister Moore, who
served this economic advisor to former President Donald Trump, criticized the Bide administration for
turning the US immigration system upside down. Well, they have. The great
replacement theory is not a theory, it's an activity, it's a plan.
It's been put in place. It's stealing from you the sanctity of your vote
because these people will end up voting. They're already allowed to vote in municipal
elections. A judge in Washington, DC, course, illegal emerics can vote.
I mean, there's nothing in the constitution that says citizens vote, except
there is. But she doesn't care, which is tangential to something else being
stolen from you rule of law. But that's front of the show. When
you examine this, understand, none of this means that you can't succeed.
None of this means that you can't build great companies that provide great value.
None of this means that you can't go into an employment market and be so
good at what you do that people have to hire you. None of this
means that you couldn't go the other direction and move to a rural area and
go and homestead like my great grandpa Morrow did, although that's becoming harder and
harder because the party definitely does not want you to have the ability to live
in a rural sense. They don't. They tend to price you out of
that. So do it now if you possibly can, even if it's with
friends. I know young people who purchase plots of land together. I know
three families who did this. They're in their early thirties and early forties.
They bought plots of land, a plot of land together. They created a
little LLC. They have three homes on It's enough acreage. They don't have
to see each other all the time. But they're able to afford something they
otherwise could not. Maybe that's why, like I was lost that I was
with these young guys, and I got to tell you, it's so funny
because we were praying at the end and my friend Andy, with whom I
co lead, Andy's just better at it than me. Why am I reaching
over and adjusting things on the desk. Who I'm doing a show? What
happened to me? What happened to my professionalism? So I was with Andy,
and Andy'd asked me to close our group in prayer. And what stays
in small group happens the small group stays. I can just share this.
You don't came out of my mouth. I referred to these young men as
men. As it was praying. I said, I want to thank you
Lord for these men. I realized i'd said men, and I said,
then, you know what, I'm using that word purposely, Lord, thank
you for the privilege of seeing these young men become men. I mean,
clearly, they're younger than me and Andy, and they have the characteristics of
men, which is a full on caring about their world. Maybe this is
why I feel so drawn to talk about these topics. Maybe it's because I'm
getting ready to hand off to my daughter, who's a legal adult. Maybe
that's why. Maybe it's because God's calling me home. I know my wife
hates hearing that. I don't think he is. Maybe that's why all I
know is I feel called to discuss this another myth or some of reality that
being stolen from young people. Is America continues to be a place where,
despite the presence of the sin of racism, so called racial minorities do well
despite this. Now, when I talk about race, sometimes I get emails.
In fact, let me pull this one up. I get emails like
this from Kimberly. Well, on a second, dear Todd, please stop
saying that you don't think of race when you think of people. That allows
the left to accuse you of the cliche of saying I don't see race,
like it or not. Your spokesperson for the rights and, as you say,
an ambassador for Jesus, So please think again about that. I don't
think it has the effect you think it. Do think it does. I
love the program, the podcast, and the two radio shows. Thank you
for reading my note. So, Kimberly, when I say I speak of
race, I don't say don't see it. I love the differences in people.
I love it. Now, this is going to sound pandering. It's
going to sound like I'm leading into Well, I've got many black friends.
I don't have many black friends. I have black friends, but not many
of them. I love it. In North Idaho, see a black family
come to church. I love it. I love it because I miss it.
One of the great things I miss about the separate countries is different ways
people look. One of the great things I miss is about different ways people
talk. One of the most satisfying aspects for me of the time that I
spent, you know, I was I would go to New York two weeks
per months. Sometimes there were people in business who actually thought I lived in
New York. I would get phone calls from time to time at my desk
at Microsoft, which had a New York number. I had a six four
to six number in addition to a four to h five, So people would
call me and say, Hey, we're going out to dinner. You want
to come? Oh, you know what I'm I'm in Seattle. Oh you
had to travel out? No, I live here? Wait you live there?
Does there? So commonly? But one of the greatest possible joys was
if I had the time to walk back from a meeting instead of taking the
train. I would often walk all the way from downtown to uptown. Sometimes
I would jog from the top end of Central Park all the way back downtown
to where I was staying. I can't tell you the immense joy I had
in jogging through, okay, sort of the white neighborhoods of Midtown Manhattan,
down into Midtown where it's a little bit more mixed, down into Hell's Kitchen
where it's very very mixed, or if you're dragging cost town, you could
go into the very very observant Jewish districts. And yes, in fact,
there are diamond merchants there, and no, that is not an anti Semitic
statement. The other areas of town that were Asian then sometimes, and people
always warn me about this. I jog around through Harlem, and that's very
much a black community, and it's very much a different experience, and I
loved it. There were Jewish communities. I had the great joy of being
taken to dinner from friends of mine in friends of mine's homes who were good,
in fact, very very good and decent Jewish human beings. And I
would sit in their home and say, Wow, this is how you eat,
and this is and I loved it. I would come home and I
would have stories to tell, Oh, my gosh, my friends dinner.
I got to have a real Jewish dinner in a real Jewish home, and
here's how they celebrated, and oh it was incredible. I miss that,
and young people are being conned. America continues to be a place where so
called racial minorities are doing well. So it's a Kimberly's point. I don't
think of people as races. I think of them as unique. I certainly
don't construe skin color or facial structure with race. And I don't care about
race. I care about background and culture and food and art and ideas and
family rearing and faith. In other words, the aspects of us that make
us different from animals. Because there's breeds of dogs. I don't want there
to be breeds of humans because there's not. Furthermore, from a fundamental perspective
of faith, when Jesus Christ talks about that the body of Christ, he
doesn't say the bodies of Christ. We are all one in Him. The
fact of the matter is racial so called racial minorities are not languishing in America.
But if you look at this charts, that would be news to gen
Z. Starting on the right side of the chart, and if you're just
listening to the audio, I'll translate it for you. This was the question
racial minorities in the US have no hope of success because of racism, some
whould agree, agree strongly agree. The total number of people who either some
would agree, agree, or strongly agree of boomers is twenty one point six
percent. If you go to gen X, it's thirty four point two percent.
Go over to millennials, forty nine point nine percent of millennials believe that
so called racial minorities have no hope of success because of racism. And if
you scan over to gen Z, it's fifty five point five percent believe that.
And the number that strongly agree is ten point three percent agree, twelve
point seven percent somewhat agree, thirty two point five. The younger the population,
the more likely they are to feel that so called racial minorities have not
little hope, not reduced hope, but no hope of success. Pause.
Put yourself into the body and mind of a young black kid, and this
is what the world at large thinks. This is what your pure group thinks.
How are you going to respond to that. There's a new form of
racism that's being talked about in de circles. You know what it is.
It's called adultification. We'll talk about this later, probably next week. Adultification.
So here's what adultification is. According to the DEI people, it's a
belief that black girls need less nurturing and love and caring for, and that
black girls are more mature than white girls. It's adultification, that's what they
call it. If you believe that you have no hope of success because of
racism, and you are told that your response to this is to take what
you want, wouldn't you be angry and covetous, and wouldn't you want to
act tough, and wouldn't you want to act out the anger you feel?
And wouldn't that sometimes cause people to think, Wow, you're not really open
to being nurtured or cared for. It's tragic, and perhaps that's not the
reason behind it. But I can tell you this, when I'm around a
kid who's super angry, super aggressive, wants nothing to do with me,
I may be able to go home and pray and get into the mindset of,
Wow, that kid really needs Jesus, that kid really needs love.
But at the moment I'm thinking, Wow, that kid's tough man, a
kid's filled with hate. That kid doesn't need that. I mean, how
could I. So it's a trap and sort of a self fulfilling prophecy.
Now the reality is something quite quite different. The economic reality is because all
of these facts aside, America is still a place where racial minorities are doing
well. It's still a place where everybody could do well if you're willing to
work. Sometimes, of course, luck is involved. Work is fundamental to
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If you're on the video service, you can see this on your screen.
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Todd Herman Show dot com. It's one chart that kind of tells a story
the contention and what's been told to young people. This so called racial minorities
cannot succeed in the United States, and yet look at the charts. Indian
Americans are earning an average of one hundred thousand, five hundred dollars per year
in America, Filipedio Americans eighty three thousand, three hundred, Taiwanese eighty two
thousand, Sri Lankans, seventy four thousand, Japanese Americans, seventy two Malaysians,
seventy thousand, Chinese Americans, sixty nine thousand Pakistani sixty six thousand,
two hundred White Americans, fifty nine thousand, Korean Americans, fifty nine thousand,
two hundred, Indonesian Americans fifty seven thousand The average American so al so
called races, the average is fifty seven thousand dollars, Indian Americans earning twice
that, and their racial minorities so called so the fact of the matter is
what young people have been caused to believe about their country is simply not true,
but think of how it contributes. This is how DEI is sold,
not with this chart, but with the feelings. What's been stolen from young
people on a meta narrative basis is the ability to think skeptically behind feelings of
good intent. This is how the Democrat Party does it. They're the party
that can speak of good intent even in the face of utter absurdities. Imagine
that you work at an editorial entity. Imagine that you're told to go look
into a story. Imagine that you then see that story given a headline.
And this is from the Independent UK how climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian trans
sex workers. Nearly ninety three percent of respondent saw decreased income during the rainy
season. Imagine working at an editorial entity were boss says, hey, you
know, the climate change thing is really really bad. That's so bad here
in the UK, but let's go let's go to Indonesia and see the effects
of climate change, you know, on men who think they're women and are
in the business of sexually servicing other men. And let's see if this caused
like a ding in their income. Then right, Okay, it's a big
story. The fact that stories like this exist come purely from feeling. First
of all, of course, men are not women. Secondly, they're not
sex workers, they're prostitutes. It's not work, it's abuse, it's trafficking.
This perversion is defilements, it's a lot of things. It's not work.
I mean they can get paid for it, but not everything you get
paid to do is work. You can get paid for fencing properties. So
part of what's been tolen from young people is the ability to look skeptically behind
feelings. Now dopamine I am the biggest target for dopamine highs. I admit
it. I've grown to understand it. I was a guy who could spend
hours arguing on social media guy, and it took me for every risk.
What is this? Why do I care? But you know that whole myth,
that whole thing of well, if someone said something wrong on the internet,
so I'm fixing it. I could sit in a chair for two hours
wasting all my energy arguing with people online. But man, I owned him.
Hey when I saw those retweets pile in and those responses, and you
owned that guy, And hey, look he blocked me, shit have baby,
he blocked me. He could not stay in the eat, he blocked,
whoa I won. I owned the labs, babe, and I'd take
screenshots and go on my show the next day and talk about, Oh,
you wouldn't believe the way I owned this guy. Check this just tweet flame
them. Look at the ratios. I can feel it right now, buzzing
up in me. I can don't put mean baby, scroll scroll scroll,
scroll scroll think. I can't tell you that it's some kind of conspiracy that
social media and the short attention time span came along at the same time as
the reperverse ideas of common Core. But I can tell you there's a commonality.
And maybe this is just click culture. Maybe this is just earn the
money off the clicks, get the kids to click, the kids are all
right. Maybe that's all it is. But if you compare back to how
we began talking about this with common Core, form an opinion about should Debora
be able to go to the public schools or the private schools? And you
don't have enough information to form an opinion, boom off of what was it
used to be one hundred and forty character tweet boom, issue your opinion,
create a thesis, publish it, get it peer reviewed. Yeah, there's
the degradation of the American mind. There's the dumbing down of the American populace.
There is no doubt there are people who want us dumb down. I
think the whole drive behind common Core was the dumbest down. I think trust
the experts is dumbest down. I think trust the science is dumbest down.
I think safest most secure election in history is dumbest down. I think stay
home and stay safe is dumbest out. I think masked work is dumbest out.
There are people who would like us very much to be dumb and compliant.
Oh, they say, so, ninety percent of the world's going to
be unneeded world economic form. You're our harari. So what do we do?
Sit them down in a chair, give them a video game that's AI,
and let them snack on psychotropics. After all, they're simpletons, they
say it, So why not speed the process? Some realities have been stolen
from young people. Here's reality number three. Heavy users of social media.
Don't use social media. It uses you. You are effectively minors miners,
not kids, but miners m I nrs in government funded surfdom cams. Let
some practice so heavy users of social media are serfs. You work for the
companies and their minions in government. What I meant to say, so,
the more time you spend doing this, the more work you're doing for free.
Do a thought experiment with me. Imagine going to Twitter and no one
posts there. What is it? It's a page that says tweet something.
Imagine going to Facebook, no one uses it. What is it? It's
a window that says what's on your mind. Instagram is the same thing.
I don't ever look at Instagram, so I don't know what it says,
but probably something like post a photo. What is it? It's a static
page. Heavy users of social media are unpaid employees. You are building the
psychological prison in which you live. You are building the click culture. You
are pushing forth the inability to think behind good intent, to be skeptical of
good intent. Open borders is pure compassion. Not prosecuting crime is the only
way to solve rampant racism. After all, minorities cannot succeed in America because
of racism. The inability to think behind these ideas. There's also this social
media absolutely absolutely drives depression and anxiety and the attempts to say that it doesn't
is one of the biggest lies in history. This is an example of a
tweet exchange that actually has some value to it. I mean there is value
to social media. You can see people argue at a decent level. God
named Jonathan Heights wrote in review in Nature, Candice Rogers asserts that I've mistaken
correlation for causation, that there's no evidence that using these platforms is rewiring children's
brains are driving an epidemic level of illness meant illness. Both of these assertions
are untrue, and Anthony broadly writes the attempt to discredit Jonathan Hate is really
exposing our cultures, gods and idols. He's stepping on toes. It seems
our kids and young adults are in serious crisis, and to not see smartphones
and social media as a contributing variable is simply deliberate ignorance. It is absolutely
a cause of major depression and anxiety. And you're working for these companies for
free. The heavier user you are, the more work you're doing for free,
the more you've built of their platforms and their search engines and their data
machines and their ad targeting machines, and their sihopabilities in working with government and
intel agencies, and the ability to use ad tracking and ad tech technology to
track you and to track world leaders. You have built that. In a
just world, you would have their income. At least Elon Musk is doing
that, sharing ad revenue with users who qualify. At least he's doing that.
Fact is this. This is not an honest economy. Fact is this.
This is a war. The fact is this, You're fighting, probably
for enemies you don't even recognize. If you're frustrated by the intelligence services,
why do you work for them? The more work you do for social media,
the more work you do for those companies. If you're frustrated with the
depression and anxiety in our country, why are you helping to push it with
social media. Look, I plead juilty. We have to use these platforms.
But I don't argue anymore. I don't engage. I will not give
myself the dopamine rush of quote winning an argument online. I refuse to do
it. I refuse to engage because I liked it too much. There are
certain things to which I'm addicted. I admit this. From time to time.
I will have a day without coffee, And I want to tell you
something. I don't get the no coffee headache. I used to when I
didn't drink coffee. I used to get the no coffee headache, and it
was crushing. Someone told me something. I said, that was because you
drank junk coffee when you were drinking Folgers, you know, dry roasted folders
in a mason jar instantly, five or six scoops at once, and a
mason jar and just chugging cold coffee. Look what else you were chugging trash?
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is a fact for me, I am still given to depression. I still
can fall into it. My number one thing is to turn to the Lord
in the circumstances, and if it doesn't work in prayer, to turn to
Christian brothers. But I'll tell you something that keeps me out of the pit
is number one, huge vigorous exercise. Number two a lot of caffeine.
I truly believe that caffeine is the greatest antidepressant in the world personally for me,
that's been my experience. And one of the realities about some stolen from
young people is you better believe that social media drives depression and anxiety. This
is from the tweet I mentioned Jonathan Hate. He's a author writing a book
now about the anxious generation. He writes this on substack. A big story
last week was the partial release of the CDC's biennial Youth Risk Behavior, which
showed that most teen girls fifty seven percent now say they experienced persistent sadness or
hopelessness, up from thirty six percent in twenty eleven, and thirty percent of
teen girls now say they have seriously considered suicide, up from nineteen percent in
twenty eleven. Boys are doing badly too, but their rates of depression and
anxiety are not as high, and their increase since twenty eleven is smaller.
I showed in my February sixteen subsec post the big surprise in the CDC data
is that COVID didn't have much of effect on the overall trends. Of course,
he means the lockdowns, which just kept marching on as they have since
around in twenty twelve. Teens were already socially distanced by twenty nineteen, which
might explain why the lockdown restrictions, or he says, COVID restrictions added little
to the rate of mental illness on average. Of course, many individuals suffered
greatly. You better believe it. We know three girls who killed themselves in
that period of time. It continues. He talks about a study that the
mere headline from an article writing about the study should tell you what sort of
why it is. Remember the uber theme, the grand narrative young people had
stolen from them, the ability to think skeptically behind feelings of good intent.
He writes, it's impossible to overstate the influence of the Ouburn and Prbyltsky study
in twenty nineteen and what it had on journalists. He provides a useful headline,
this is actually an article that was written in massive science headline Should parents
fear potatoes as much as screens? A new study says neither have serious positive
or negative impacts on childhood? Well be pause. No one who has ever
been taught to think skeptically can ever believe that too much screen time is like
eating potatoes. God created potatoes as a common blessing, our bodies are designed
to consume them. You eat all potatoes all the time unless you're a very
nick human. And there is a woman who lives in North Side who actually
says that she eats nothing but potatoes, and she's alive, and I don't
know if I believe her, but that's what she says. Most of us
would die. So this study, of course, was trash. You already
know that because you're going to take out of this potatoes. Jonathan Hate writes.
Whenever you hear a journalist or researcher say that social media has been found
to have literal no relationship with mental illness. You're likely to find a link
to that study. And when I first read that study, I had doubts
myself. He's a very well intended man. He decided to read straight into
the study, straight through it, and to give them benefit of the doubt.
In other words, he applied skepticism in a friendly sense and went through
their studies and came back to say, you know what, their own data
doesn't say what they say it does. Here's how they did it. They
com mingled light users of social media with very heavy users of social media,
and they commingled boys and girls. So you take light users, our most
users boys and girls is then fifty percent. So you take very heavy social
media using girls, which are the girls from ending up suicidal and depressed,
and you water down the results because you take the mean outcome. That's how
they pulled the stunt. That's what journalists fell for, because jurulists so want
to believe that social media doesn't do this, after all, it's just like
potatoes. So he looked at UK teen girls and what he did was apply
the filter of heavy usage. Percent of UK teens depressed as a function of
hours per weekday on social media. For boys, You go from the left
side of the chart no social media to the right side of the chart five
plus hours, and you get up to fifteen percent of boys who are depressed.
When you get over to the heavy usage side for girls, you start
at none, and girls tend to be baseline depressed more often than boys at
about twelve percent. But when you get all the way over to five hours
of usage per week, it's almost forty percent of those girls were depressed.
Of course they're depressed. Our bodies were not designed to take in information like
this or to be coddled like this. The fact is, if we skip
part of this study and go down to the conclusion in seven, you,
if you're listening, and you, if you're watching, go along with me
on this the conclusion social media is a major cause of mental illness in girls,
not just a tiny correlation or correl It were now eleven years into the
largest epidemic of teen mental illness on record, As the CDC's recent report showed,
most girls are suffering and nearly a third have seriously considered suicide. Why
is this happening? Why did it start so suddenly? Run twenty twelve.
It's not because of the global financial crisis. Why would that hit younger teen
girls hardest. Why would teen millennial illness rise throughout the twenty tens as the
American economy got better and better. Why did a measure of loneliness go up
around the world after twenty twelve as the global economy got better and better?
And why would the epidemic hit Canadian girls just as hard when Canada didn't have
much of a crisis. It's not because of the nine to eleven attacks,
wars in the Middle East, or school shootings. As Emily Durkins showed long
ago, people in Western societies don't kill themselves because of wars or collective threats.
They kill themselves when they feel isolated and alone. Also, why would
American tragedies cause the epidemic to start the same time among Canadian and British girls.
Fact is this, and this is the last myth we're going to talk
about today, or the last thing reality that's been stolen from teens and millennials.
Gen Z, the younger you are, the more likely you fell for
this. You are designed to have real relationships. Bther day, I went
to visit a friend at work, male friend, and I walked in and
he walked up to me and said, today I need a hug. I
gave him a hug. I got as much out of it as he did,
and it's a brotherly Christian act. You're designed for this. In Genesis
chapter two, verse eighteen, it says the Lord God said, it is
not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable helpl
for him. The first time in history God said my creation is not good
was when women weren't there. In John chapter fifteen, verse fifteen, this
is the Lord Jesus, the God of the universe, speaking to common men.
I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his
master's business. Instead, I've called you friends. For everything that I learned
from my father, I've made known to you. You were designed for real
relationships, to have real feelings, for people to love as a verb,
to experience the fruit of the spirit. You are not designed to stare at
phones or work for free for social media companies. In fact, they should
be paying you. Even from a scriptural perspective, do not withhold the wages
from the labor. You are not designed to believe that the sin problem of
racism means that people with different skin colors or cultures cannot succeed. The data
shows otherwise. It's very clear otherwise that some so called racial minorities are doing
far better than some so called white people. Then in fact the average white
person by far by twice. We were not designed to create the world's lifeboat.
Spiritually in States has been the world's life boat five percent of the world's
population. We've taken in twenty percent of the world's displaced peoples, and now
the replacement theory is replacing you and your vote. The biggest theft on a
meta narrative basis is the ability to think skeptically behind good feelings and good intent.
This is why we will stand firmly on the Word of God, that
is the Todd Hermannshaw. Please go be well, be strong, be kind,
and please do make every effort to read the Word of God on a
multi time per day basis. Pray constantly so that you can walk in the
light of Christ. Y