This NYU professor, Scott Galloway, is probably the most daring public speaker I've seen in a long while. Watch his TED talk, when he bashed himself, teased TED talks and, quite remarkably, shamed his own audience. And he started and ended with a simple question: do we love our children?
I feel like Prof. Galloway is challenging his audience, almost to a point of insulting them, himself included. They are, he argues, basically robbing the future of their children's and grandchildren's. I also want to point out that he's talking to a captive audience, who were seated there like prisoners. Almost. But I love it that he was also self-deprecating. He is not shy trashing himself, and making a joke of the host that invited him to talk there in the first place.
He is funny, witty, genuine and has a big point to make. For that I will cut him some slack breaking a lot of rules in communications.
Here's another great, no-nonsense author (of The Anxiety Generation) and sociologist and Prof. Galloway's colleague at NYU: Jonathan Haidt. We have been overly protective of our children in the real world, and much less so on social media, goes his thesis.
No smartphones before high school, that was one of his suggestions to all schools, parents and social media companies. (Good luck selling that to Meta, future owner of TikTok, etc.)
As a parent myself, I am very much in favor of his ideas. And I am trying to keep a phone away from my kids. On a similar note, I'd ask Congress to ban all social media for children before high school before they sell TikTok.
