To link two themes I Tweet about, social media replaces the adult world, mediated by institutions going back…

To link two themes I Tweet about, social media replaces the adult world, mediated by institutions going back multiple generations, with a high school culture. It’s a technology that allows the cultural and social life of high school to become all of life. People leave school…/1

…and no longer transition to that institutionally-mediated life, instead remaining on social media as the tool to mediate wider social life. It entrenches adolescence as the dominant cultural form, across all ages. If you want to understand why society won’t do something…/2

…basic like fight a pandemic, try remembering how hard it is to get a teenager to do anything, like clean their room. Not an analogy, society now sees public health action as being ‘grounded’, like a teenager. All of our culture is becoming adolescent, and social media…/3

…platforms are the enablers. /end