Joe Rogan and Sebastian Junger on Smartphones Destroying this Generation

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1. Smartphones r the new crack.

2. Joe being amazed at squeezing his phone is pure idiocy. I squeeze my phone too… That's how the button gets pressed smh

3. I wang to quit youtube, but damn! There's soooo much awesome content out here. Stupid content as well, but awewome stuff too.

4. I can relate to what Sebastian Junger is saying. I didn't get my first touchscreen smartphone (a 2013 model, a Sony that I still use) until 2015. I have a prepaid T-Mobile plan that only costs me about $15 bucks a month. If I need to talk for more than 5 minutes, which is never, I can use free Google Voice on my laptop—free phone calls or text messages is a real luxury. I do like to have my smartphone while I'm out in the world because it's really just an i-Pod because I'm always listening to a downloaded podcast with my earbuds in. But I will admit that I'm more socially isolated and anxious than I used to be. I recently went to the airport (to pick up a friend) and rather than braving the crowds (I'm still not sure why the airport was extremely crowded on a Friday night at 9:30pm) and meeting my friend at baggage claim I just stayed near my car in the parking garage. The idea of being stuck in an elevator with strangers (people who are possibly happier, better looking, better dressed, in better shape, and wealthier) was just too scary. I still remember the first time I sent an e-mail (1997) and created my own Hotmail account and the librarian that helped me set it up. And the next year getting my first personal computer when I was 27 years old and mostly just using it for AOL "Singles" Chatrooms (no Google or Wikipedia yet) and my first online date. I got my first cell phone in 2000. Got my first i-Pod in 2005 and loaded my first podcast and it was great to have something to listen to and get out of my own head for awhile. I personally wouldn't want to go back to the old days like "dial up" internet. People like the 57 year old Sebastian Junger walking around in the real world with just a flip phone……they're like some kind of rare dinosaur or possible hyper extrovert. Of course working-class people semi-enslaved at their service jobs aren't necessarily wearing earbuds and tuning the world out. Their smartphone is tucked in a back pocket set to vibrate or silent. I'm almost 50 years old so the world has kind of crushed me…..I had my chance at conquering it but failed miserably…..so I escape into podcasts like Joe Rogan's while he listens and talks to people who have triumphed temporarily over this life—like Sebastian Junger whose book The Perfect Storm I have had the pleasure of reading twice and the movie was pretty damn good too.

5. Are anxiety rates in teens really skyrocketing or is it like autism, meaning it's always been there, we're just properly diagnosing it now. I was a really in the early '00s @ the dam of social media & I tenement a lot of anxiety amongst my peers. My parents & grandparents said they & many friends feel anxious, it was called puberty. I wonder if it's just that?

6. It's about having the awareness and discipline to know when to use it and when to turn it off.

7. This guy seems brain dead a smartphone would be wasted on him

8. Fat ass kids playing on the phone instead of riding bicycles and fighting.

9. I deleted YouTube what a relief

10. Mr Junger is an absolute hero and should be treated as gold.

    Excellent interview

11. People in the 40 50’s radio music is destroying this generation
    60 70’ tv is destroying this generation
    80’s 90’s video games! Mother fucking destruction
    2000’s phones
    Next

12. strange that something that has become so anti-social ended up being called social media. no one had the foresight to realize never leaving home or never looking some one in the eye maybe wasn't going to be such a good idea. the ones on the receiving end of the cash flow conned people into believing it would be something they couldn't live without.

13. I think guns are destroying us as a culture. Cell phones now is our culture. America has become such a toxic place to live. Online is no diffrent but its not destroying us like guns are, they are actually killing people, a cop killed a 14 year old kid yesterday with a gun. He had a airsoft gun and a cop killed him. Gun violence happens and its terrible.

14. 8:20. growing pains

15. I want a blackberry

16. It makes me wonder that maybe the reason that I do not have much desire to socialize in real life with real people is because I am actually tricking my brain in to believing that I am already socializing by looking at the projection of other people socializing since technology tends to be an extention to our bodies it can be tricked easily by visual stimulation. This actually is quite disturbing to understand.

    At least I feel more aware by consuming this type of information.

17. Fun watching Joe try to justify his addiction. Sebastian is very logical and spot on.

18. I usually never comment but all you mf's in the comment section talking about how much of a problem social media is are the same ones who pick up their phone after typing the comment. .

19. Is there a causal relationship or is it simply symptomatic?

20. No facebook, twitter or instagram. Smug.

21. Facebook couldn’t take my sense of humour when people were begging it I gave them attention they wasn’t looking for going against the grain lol Facebook is so fake

22. The problem with these apps is the notifications keep drawing you back when you’re not on them. Even just turning off your notification popups for social media apps will make a huge difference.