I’ve been reading the book Anxious Generation for the last few weeks and I have a lot of thoughts now that I’m nearing the end of the book. Primarily, my biggest take away is the lack of community that we have currently during adolescence.

We have changed everything in the name of convenience and simplicity that we’ve gotten rid of the need to interact with our immediate community. If I had to distill the entire philosophy of this book into a single one, it is that we must become better members of our society and we must make efforts to strengthen and improve the society in which we live.

This can be from community events or other group interactions. These interactions are the key to being fulfilled in life, especially in the developing years of adolescence. We are so divided and not just in the USA. We are so divided globally because it is so easy to pray upon one’s fears. They have so little confidence they believe the fears and react accordingly right into the hands of those who have prepared this trap. we have to stop picking sides and start talking facts.

This book speaks to the virility of the human experience on the earth. We take what we want individually we care only about ourselves and unless strengthened by the community, we assume this is good.

The downside, of course, is that by focusing only on ourselves, we lose what can only be held together by a strong community the sense of belonging processes of accomplishment all of these things become nullified when we move away and operate as individuals naïvely, thinking that we can survive on our own. This has never been the case humanity always relied on, entire communities for anyone of us to be successful. The most successful person by any definition is the product of the society in which they were raised.

Whatever I have so many other thoughts and I feel like I’m rambling and not being able to organize what they are at this time but that’s what this blog is all about and now I’m starting to realize that this is the outlet for the thoughts that I have before I can capture them into a more cohesive organized response. Thank you for enduring my never-ending diarrhea of the mouth.