/lit/ — is this the most influential book of the past decade? it alm

>>25343488 (OP)
ngl i thought it didn't go far enough

>>25343498
but haidt is really just yet another inoffensive pop sci writer so i shouldn't have expected much

>>25343488 (OP)
>influential
How? He's diagnosing something everyone is watching happen in plain sight. No serious thought, just capitalizing on a defect of postmodernity to get on the NYT best seller list and secure his retirement fund. Not literature, just more slop for Barnes and Noble.

>>25343488 (OP)
Equivalent to Mark Manson.

>>25343513
because the book and the author by themselves were instrumental in organizing the movement that is currently pressuring governments around the world to put age limits on social media usage and internet access more generally