The NY Times has published another interesting article, this time about the level of detail people tend to reveal or conceal when either blogging or social networking, and how this level may differ among the generations. The long comment role is also insightful.
Read the article here.
– CBG
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There’s been a lot of talk about youth mental health during the pandemic, including a number of prominent voices raising the alarm about this crisis. There have been almost as many voices suggesting that ending things like lockdowns, mask and vaccine mandates, and just getting “back to normal” will fix this mental health crisis.
I am not one of those voices.
Now let me be clear, I’m not saying that the pandemic hasn’t played a number on mental health for all of us, it clearly has. But, the crisis in mental health for everyone, but especially young people, existed long before COVID-19.
As it turns out, tuning out people who might need some compassion is simply an act of isolation, and isolation is almost never good for our own mental health. By cutting out the people who don’t always offer up those positive vibes, we wind up disconnected and lonely. Which, of course, we can’t share with the people left around us, because we are all living in the nothing negative bubble, so you are now living a very isolated life, which leads to much MORE anxiety, stress, and depression.
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One of England’s Independent Television (ITV) Documentaries about Jimmy Savile in their Exposure series – The Other Side of Jimmy Savile – has won a RTS TV Journalism award. Its producer also revealed that the programme only cost GBP 170,000 (USD 260,000) despite taking 10 months and going through clearance by lawyers. The Guardian has…
Over the Bank holiday weekend, Chuck Hagel described Sexual Assault in the Military as a “scourge” when giving a speech at the West Point Graduation ceremony. That story is here by the Daily Mail although the excellent Toy Soldier blog also covered something similar before the weekend and that post is here.
