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0:00As much as possible, I want to avoid
0:01the topic of social media. I've already
0:03talked about them enough times. Besides
0:05, both social media and phones are only
0:07part of the problem. How we ended up
0:10letting them dominate everyone's life
0:12was a long process. Here I want to
0:15share a global vision, one that sees
0:16that from a young age, anxiety is a
0:18byproduct you are forced to deal with
0:20every day, degrading its occasional
0:22utility into a daily feeling and a
0:24chronic lifestyle problem. A life where
0:27the fear of making a bad decision has a
0:29greater psychological impact than the
0:31result of the decision itself. As
0:33children understand and assimilate that
0:35this is the socially accepted way of
0:37living, anxiety will be a natural
0:38response to life itself. Around the 70s
0:46and 80s, something important changed in
0:48how childhood and free time were
0:50enjoyed. Let's talk about the fact that
0:52the vast majority of children had the
0:53freedom to go to school alone and spend
0:55more time on the street unsupervised.
0:56But when the 90s arrived, it dropped
0:59drastically. A study in the United
1:01Kingdom found that barely 9%of children
1:03kept that freedom. The culprit for that
1:06drastic drop, which continues to this
1:07day, was this: advertising missing
1:09children on milk cartons in every home.
1:12Super aggressive campaigns were
1:13launched to warn that the outside world
1:15was a nest of psychopaths waiting for
1:16the exact moment to kidnap your child.
1:18And the cardboard boxes were a daily
1:20reminder. Not just them; the rest of
1:22the world caught that fear. Every
1:24country took its two or three
1:26controversial cases and aired them so
1:27many times on television that the faces
1:29of those children were etched onto the
1:31screen. Everyone was talking about
1:33kidnapped, tortured children, imagining
1:35a white van or strangers giving out
1:36candy. The United States popularized a
1:39television message warning parents
1:40after 10 p.m. "Do you know where your
1:42children are?" It took years to clarify
1:44one small detail. The vast majority of
1:47disappearances were children who ran
1:49away from home. Some got lost, others
1:51came back, others had accidents. And if
1:53a kidnapper was truly confirmed, it was
1:56almost always a relative or someone
1:57close to the family. The lunatic in the
2:00white van was a rarity, a mythological
2:02being of such magnitude that the real
2:04probability of it happening hovered
2:05around 0.001%. It was just as likely
2:08they would be struck by lightning. It
2:10was infinitely more likely they would
2:12choke while eating, but they didn't
2:13stop eating. Or get into a car accident
2:15, but they didn't stop putting them in
2:17cars. Or they would hit their heads in
2:19a fall, but they didn't stop walking.
2:20And yet, they all agreed not to let
2:22them go out, because the psychological
2:24burden of it even being a possibility
2:26is greater than the actual danger.
2:29Because many, even hearing this, will
2:30think of the news they saw, the details
2:32provided, and even if it's one in a
2:34million, they are afraid. And fear
2:37doesn't understand numbers, because
2:38you'll be surprised to know it's 10
2:40times more likely to win the Christmas
2:42lottery than for a stranger to kidnap a
2:43child. And winning the lottery is
2:46impossible, right? I'll clarify one
2:48thing: in the 70s and 80s, street crime
2:49was high, but not the kind of criminal
2:51that kidnapped children, rather the
2:53kind that stole bags. In other
2:55countries where the mafia is a real
2:56problem, like the Mexican cartels, an
2:58extra layer is added to the problem
2:59that should be separated. But even
3:02there, if a small child disappears, it
3:04is most likely that they ran away or
3:05that one of the parents kidnapped them.
3:08Things change when they are teenagers.
3:11In the same years when everyone looked
3:12at each other accusingly in the park,
3:14new worries were born regarding drugs,
3:15AIDS, and cars. Throughout the 80s and
3:1890s, everything was awareness campaigns
3:20. It's not that they didn't exist
3:22before, but this was the key time when
3:24you'd see a police officer or doctor
3:25giving a talk in class, they showed
3:27videos—you'll surely remember, they
3:28also aired them on TV. They were
3:30grotesque and dramatized to the limit,
3:32thinking that the impact was more
3:33effective. I think I already said this
3:35in one of the color videos. The bad
3:37thing about those campaigns is that
3:38they exaggerated too much. They were
3:40some of the first held at a national
3:41level, and they made you believe that
3:43if you smoked a cigarette, the next
3:44week you'd be under a bridge with a
3:46syringe or your mouth would be full of
3:47sores, holes would appear in your nose,
3:49or infections of all kinds. They didn't
3:50hold back, did they? They exaggerated
3:53so much that those who decided to try
3:54it saw it wasn't the end of the world,
3:56so overconfidence increased; it ended
3:58up backfiring. Also, in the 90s, the "
4:00Póntelo, Ponselo" campaign became
4:02famous. Lives ruined by having children
4:04, girls pushing baby strollers, and
4:06also all those bloody campaigns to
4:08prevent traffic accidents and the
4:10occasional one about anorexia. The fear
4:12of obesity came a little later. And
4:14well, now you might say, "Yes, with
4:16fearful parents and insecure children,
4:17but at least the world is better now."
4:20To a great extent, yes, true, but it
4:21wasn't thanks to fear-mongering. In
4:23fact, many of these campaigns were
4:25counterproductive. Showing missing
4:27children on milk cartons created the
4:29bogeyman illusion. When children got
4:31lost, they were afraid to ask strangers
4:33for help because anyone could be
4:34dangerous. They had been taught to
4:36avoid them. Furthermore, it ruined
4:38unsupervised outdoor playtime forever.
4:40The fear never went away, nor did it
4:42decrease in intensity. It increased
4:43over time. In 2018, in Puebla, Mexico,
4:46two men, Alberto and Ricardo, were
4:48burned alive, accused of kidnapping
4:50children. It was later discovered that
4:52they were innocent. The fear is so
4:54strong that they accused them without
4:56evidence and burned them alive without
4:58a single child having even gone missing
5:00. It was just a man and his nephew in a
5:03van, traveling to buy materials to
5:05build a well, who had the misfortune of
5:07stopping to rest and have a beer near a
5:09school. And even after proving they had
5:12no equipment or intention to kidnap
5:13anyone, that the trip was purely for
5:15the well, and that they had never
5:16harmed anyone, they still didn't
5:17believe it. Anti-drug campaigns didn't
5:21work as expected either. Consumption
5:23did not stop. What they achieved was
5:25that people changed how they consumed
5:27it, smoking instead of injecting it to
5:29avoid AIDS. Teen pregnancies did drop,
5:31but not thanks to any talk or video,
5:33but because in the 80s, women's goals
5:35gradually changed. They shifted from
5:37looking for a good husband to looking
5:38for a good career. That translated into
5:40being much more careful. Women aware
5:42that a pregnancy could stall their
5:44lives for years had more access to
5:46birth control, the pill. Car accidents
5:48also dropped, but not thanks to
5:50embedding gore scenes into the entire
5:52population. I still remember them, but
5:54because they made seatbelts mandatory.
5:57The possibility of a fine made even the
5:58most stubborn person buckle up. Roads
6:01also improved along with airbag systems
6:03, and speeding was controlled with
6:05radars and huge fines or jail time
6:06directly if you go over 200.
6:09Philosopher Ivan Illich dubbed this in
6:11'75 as paradoxical counterproductivity.
6:14There comes a point where any tool or
6:15technological advancement designed to
6:17make life easier turns against you if
6:19taken to the extreme. Like many other
6:21philosophers, he also thought the
6:22problem was the environment and not the
6:24human being. Medical strategies fail
6:26because they concentrate too much
6:28effort on the disease and very little
6:29on changing the environment that makes
6:31people sick. The only thing they
6:34achieved with those campaigns was to
6:35instill fear. Real changes were
6:37achieved in another way. So, why did
6:39they use them? Because nobody accepts a
6:41big change at first. Because when laws
6:44change, they need the majority of the
6:45population to agree, and they usually
6:47achieve that with fear. Now we’re
6:48making seatbelts mandatory. Okay,
6:50that’s sensible. Now, speed cameras
6:52to control speed. Okay, yeah, now a
6:54point system for the driver's license.
6:55It makes sense, I think. Now, if you
6:58look at your phone stopped at a traffic
7:00light, you can get a 200 euro fine,
7:02just like that warning on cigarette
7:04packs. No matter how black they make
7:06the lung look, whoever wants to smoke
7:08will smoke. That image exists to get
7:10the non-smoker on their side, so that
7:12when they raise the price, limit more
7:13smoking areas, or fine you for walking
7:15while smoking near a park. They support
7:17it. Don't focus on whether they were
7:19positive changes or not. I want to show
7:21a global shift in mentality toward
7:23constant worry, and parents with more
7:25fear than excitement. And fear is
7:28contagious. The culture of fear led to
7:34hyper-vigilant parents. The child's
7:36success no longer depended only on
7:38their merits or the school, but also on
7:40them. This ad showed that if your child
7:42got bad grades, it wasn't a good idea
7:43to hit them. Instead, it was better to
7:45count to 10 and help them study. But
7:47they didn't stop there. They had to
7:48make the most of the whole day; the
7:50more activities done, the better.
7:51Extracurricular activities, tutoring,
7:53activities at home. What happened when
7:55they encouraged parents to get so
7:57involved in their children's lives?
7:59Children started having less autonomy;
8:01they started by helping them study and
8:02then telling them exactly how to do
8:04everything else, completely eliminating
8:06the freedom necessary to develop their
8:08own judgment. And that freedom includes
8:10rebellion. Of course, they need to test
8:12social norms to understand why the
8:14world is the way it is. These parents
8:15teach them that making mistakes is bad,
8:17and when they do, they rush to solve
8:18the problem for them themselves. The
8:21child kept delaying the age at which
8:22they could make their own decision with
8:23the risk of being wrong and facing the
8:25result on their own. By the time those
8:28first big decisions in their life
8:29arrive, they don't know what to do. Now
8:31, further on you will understand this
8:33better, but understand that it also
8:34extends into adult life. The only thing
8:36that changes is who protects you: your
8:38parents or the conveniences of a modern
8:39world. Human beings need to have a real
8:42goal and strive to achieve it. It
8:44doesn't matter if they achieve what
8:45they set out to do or not. They need to
8:46see that their effort has a purpose. If
8:48a person cannot take this risk because
8:50they have surrendered their
8:51self-sufficiency to the system, they
8:53effectively become a domesticated
8:54animal. Jean-Jacques Rousseau already
8:56said this in 1755. The horse, the cat,
8:59the bull, and even the donkey itself
9:01are generally taller and all have a
9:02more robust constitution, more vigor,
9:04strength, and courage in the forests
9:06than in our homes. They lose half of
9:08these advantages by becoming domestic.
9:10And it could be said that all our care
9:12in treating and feeding these animals
9:13only serves to degenerate them. The
9:15same happens with man himself. By
9:18becoming sociable and enslaved, he
9:19becomes weak, fearful, servile, and his
9:21soft and effeminate way of life ends up
9:23enervating both his strength and his
9:25courage. Effeminate. He uses it here as
9:27it was used in ancient Rome. As soon as
9:29a man was filled with gold and comforts
9:30, his ambition and his desire to
9:32explore the world diminished, and he
9:33became more fearful. Parents developed
9:35a protective anxiety, believing they
9:37would improve their children's future,
9:39but they were and are only burning them
9:41out. The only reason all kids now have
9:43cell phones is because of parents
9:44worried 24 hours a day in case
9:46something happens to them. Not as
9:48exaggerated as in that Black Mirror
9:49episode where the mother puts cameras
9:50in her daughter's eyes, but something
9:52like that. The concept of trauma was
9:54expanded because of this increased
9:56sensitivity to fear, because a society
9:58afraid to live is only capable of
9:59educating through it. Once they had all
10:06the children locked at home, other
10:08demons came to try to kill them, that
10:10is, Dungeons&Dragons, the Nintendos,
10:12Segas, Super Nintendo, PlayStation,
10:14whatever. Tabletop dice role-playing
10:16was frowned upon from the beginning.
10:19Antisocial youths locked in their
10:20houses, fantasizing about being other
10:22people, casting spells, and killing.
10:24That had to be dangerous, something to
10:26control as well. I experienced that in
10:27school. Imagine the combo that I was:
10:29liking Marilyn Manson, Diablo 2, and
10:31playing a game of Call of Cthulhu or
10:33Vampire: The Masquerade. They saw you
10:35as a ticking time bomb. "Uh, one day
10:36this guy will kill us thinking he's
10:38getting experience points." It sounds
10:40like a joke now, but the fear at that
10:42time was real, and it was because they
10:43had fed that fear for over 30 years
10:45with cases like that of Daren Molitor,
10:46who, after killing a girl, said that
10:48role-playing games had led him to a
10:50delusion; one in which he was unable to
10:51distinguish reality. In '86, 16-
10:54year-old Sean Sellers confessed he had
10:56turned to Satanism and become heartless
10:58thanks to Dungeons and Dragons, which
11:00is why he killed his parents and a
11:02store clerk, Christopher Pritchard. He
11:05only said he wanted his stepfather's
11:06inheritance, but as soon as they
11:08discovered he played Dungeons and
11:09Dragons, the headlines wrote themselves
11:11. Such was the fear that any case that
11:13couldn't be explained was blamed on
11:14roleplaying because it was in fashion.
11:16Regarding James Dallas Egbert, a gifted
11:1816-year-old boy, they said he had
11:20gotten lost and died inside the
11:21university tunnels. thinking he was
11:23exploring a dungeon in a live-action
11:25game. It was later discovered that this
11:27was a lie. James's real intention was
11:28to die in the tunnels from an overdose,
11:30not because of a roleplaying game, but
11:32because he felt overwhelmed by the
11:34constant pressure his parents put on
11:35him. As intelligent as he was, he was
11:38still just a kid who entered university
11:40at 15, burnt out from having to be
11:41better than everyone else, stressed by
11:43the environment, terrified that his
11:45parents would find out he was gay, and
11:47potentially addicted to various
11:48substances, ironically including
11:50anti-anxiety medication. A year later,
11:53he shot himself. Spain also had a very
11:56famous case of two boys who randomly
11:57killed a man on the street. The news
12:00reported that Javier Rosado, one of
12:01them, had invented a game called "Razas
12:03." That was true. What wasn't true was
12:06that roleplaying had turned his head.
12:07In fact, he even wrote himself that
12:09roleplaying with dice disgusted him
12:10because it involved randomness.
12:11Regardless, he hadn't lost contact with
12:13reality or anything of the sort. He was
12:15just curious to know what it would feel
12:17like to kill after years of obsession
12:19with serial killers, and he thought
12:20that with the game it would be easier
12:22to convince his friend Félix. So they
12:24went out one morning with knives to
12:26kill the first lonely person they found
12:28, a poor 50-year-old man leaving work.
12:32From the very first moment, they blamed
12:33roleplaying games for making them
12:35unable to distinguish reality from
12:36fantasy, when the truth is they were
12:38already damaged people from the start;
12:39and the rest were inventions of the
12:41press to sell more in an era of fear
12:43toward Satanism, roleplaying games, and
12:44video games. The same thing happened
12:46with video games, aggravated by the
12:48fact that they no longer just used the
12:49imagination; it was graphic. Joe
12:51Lieberman even stated that video games
12:53like Mortal Kombat taught children to
12:54enjoy violence. They also blamed Doom
12:57when the Columbine attack happened. And
12:59in Spain, they were obsessed with the
13:01idea that José Rabadán, the katana
13:03killer who murdered his parents and
13:04little sister, wanted to imitate the
13:06protagonist of Final Fantasy VIII. He
13:08said he wasn't trying to imitate anyone
13:09, that that day he felt he couldn't
13:11control his body, a psychosis or
13:12something like that. Maybe he lied and
13:14is a psychopath. In any case, at no
13:16point did he blame video games. Okay,
13:18so no video games or board games, they
13:20are dangerous. Wait, isn't that Ozzy
13:21music the one John McCollum killed
13:23himself to? Or the song "Better by You,
13:25Better than Me," because everyone knows
13:27it has a subliminal message that says,
13:28"Do it." And that's why James Vance and
13:30Ray Belknap shot themselves, or Marilyn
13:32Manson, because some shooting is also
13:34his fault. Plus, he had a rib removed
13:36to suck his own...you know. In the
13:37media, they don't exploit these fears
13:38anymore because they seem absurd. The
13:40vast majority of us grew up playing and
13:42we saw, as we see now, that it was
13:43never the problem; even though there
13:45are much more violent and realistic
13:46games now like Hell Let Loose, it
13:47doesn't fly anymore. 2010 arrived and
13:50every kid had a smartphone. Nothing
13:53wrong at first, if they're on their
13:54phone, they aren't doing other things.
13:56And then they realized the damage. If
13:58they are on their phone, they aren't
13:59doing other things. They aren't having
14:01the necessary experiences in the real
14:03world to mature their emotional side.
14:05You see a million stories every day
14:07that you don't remember the next day,
14:09lifestyles that are mostly fake or
14:10exaggerated, and you end up feeding the
14:12same lie, emulating that disgustingly
14:14forced positivity that always permeates
14:15everyone who wants to expose themselves
14:17on the internet. Furthermore, the phone
14:19didn't eliminate the danger of the
14:21stranger, it empowered it. Before, they
14:23were alone on the street, worried about
14:24one person. Now on the internet, anyone
14:26has access to them, luring them with
14:28digital candy, extortion, blackmail, a
14:31machine that condenses the entire world
14:33into a perpetual worry and constant
14:35self-analysis, and they left them alone
14:37with that 24 hours a day. All day on
14:40the phone, but afraid to talk on the
14:42phone. They treated them as if they
14:44were going to die if they went out into
14:45the street. Now, why are they surprised
14:47when they don't want to go out?
14:49Maturity is not linear. As I said, they
14:51can be incredibly responsible in some
14:53areas and not in others. That is a
14:55nightmare for a parent, because while
14:57on one hand it is healthy for them to
14:58face problems on their own, it is not
15:00healthy to overload them, because
15:02instead of developing stress tolerance,
15:04they will shut down. That was the
15:05problem with James and with gifted
15:07teenagers in general. They are the ones
15:09who burn out the fastest. He entered
15:11college at 15; like many parents with
15:13gifted children, they made the mistake
15:15of equating intelligence with mental
15:16maturity. When it's proven to be the
15:19other way around, many gifted people
15:20are emotionally below average; they get
15:22frustrated sooner because they demand
15:24more of themselves and more is demanded
15:25of them. They left him alone, living
15:27with people 3 to 7 years older than him
15:29, who distanced themselves from him for
15:31being young, gifted, and gay. They
15:33expected his intelligence to be enough
15:35for him to adapt, but a year later, the
15:37only thing he wanted was a bullet in
15:39his head. They forget that they are
15:41still emotionally children. Their
15:43intelligence doesn't make them any more
15:44capable of handling the stress,
15:46isolation, demands, and pressure of an
15:47adult world. For the rest, whether they
15:49are gifted like him or not, the problem
15:51is the same. The transition to
15:53adulthood is unbalanced. They go from
15:55being afraid of strangers to worrying
15:57about finding a job, buying a house,
15:58and seeing if their ass is bigger or
16:00smaller than everyone else's. The
16:02emotional burden they carry grows
16:03disproportionately to their level of
16:04mental maturity. This is what I was
16:06referring to earlier. This imbalance is
16:08largely due to overprotection. Not
16:10letting them make mistakes, telling
16:11them what to do, how and when, and from
16:13one year to the next, shrugging your
16:14shoulders and saying, "Well, fend for
16:16yourself, you're an adult now." They
16:17are, more or less, but they don't have
16:20the tools. The only thing they have
16:21learned up to that point is how to
16:23follow orders. They reach 15 or younger
16:25, normalizing symptoms that should only
16:27manifest in serious situations like
16:29deaths or divorces. You normalize
16:31feeling tired all day, that chest
16:32tightness becoming habitual. Breathing
16:35only halfway, rushing to the bathroom
16:37at the mere thought of leaving the
16:38house, thinking about all the things
16:40you should be doing, knowing you'll
16:41feel worse if you don't do them, and
16:43yet being unable to do them. You get
16:45pissed off over nonsense and pretend to
16:47downplay important things. No one will
16:49come running to help you because from
16:51the outside, they only see you as a
16:53jerk, and maybe even a lunatic if they
16:55notice you have strange scars on your
16:57arm. You learn to endure and keep
16:59enduring until you explode. And this is
17:01when the real magic happens. Once you
17:03explode with a panic attack, you will
17:05also be afraid of the attack itself.
17:07You will live every day for the rest of
17:09your life obsessively analyzing
17:10yourself all the time, thinking that
17:12every little sensation is a symptom of
17:13another panic attack. And you know the
17:15best part, many reach the point of
17:17being on the floor unable to breathe
17:18and they don't even know why. They
17:21don't know what's causing it, more than
17:22anything. There is no therapy or
17:24medication that can cure you of
17:26yourself, or cure the way you've been
17:27told you have to live. By the time the
17:30problem becomes unsustainable, you will
17:31become the sick one, the bum, the lazy
17:33one, medicating yourself to the point
17:34of emotional numbness, because here
17:36what doesn't kill you never makes you
17:38stronger, just more submissive. So, why
17:42is it that in a world that should be
17:44safer, more varied, and balanced in
17:46every aspect, there are more and more
17:47cases of mental illness? Why? If there
17:50is higher life expectancy, medicine,
17:52and global well-being, the cases
17:53increase every year. Asked like that it
17:55seems like it makes no sense, but I'll
17:57ask it another way and you'll see it's
17:58easy to understand. Why is it that when
18:00you improve the condition of roads in
18:02poor countries, accidents increase?
18:04Clem Agba, a Nigerian minister, said in
18:062020 that the poor state of the roads
18:08served to make drivers go slowly, with
18:10more care, because as soon as they
18:12improved them, they would speed and
18:14accidents and deaths would increase. He
18:16was mocked a lot, even though deep down
18:17he did want to improve them, but what
18:19he said isn't crazy at all. What he
18:21said is known as the Peltzman effect.
18:23The safer the environment, the more
18:25risks people take. From his position,
18:27it made sense. With old cars and new
18:29roads, people sped up and any crash
18:31could be fatal. Even with modern cars,
18:33his statement and the effect remain
18:35true, because the same thing happens on
18:37straight roads in general. Nearly 70%of
18:39accidents in developed countries occur
18:41on straight roads, on sunny days, on
18:43roads in good condition. Overconfidence
18:45and apparent safety incite most people
18:48to speed. In technological terms, life
18:52is increasingly simple and the road is
18:55increasingly safe, but we, the vehicle,
18:57remain primitive. An old chassis that
18:59is by no means prepared to go so fast,
19:01and yet every year we accelerate more.
19:04Sure, we don't die from simple diarrhea
19:06anymore, as is always said in these
19:08situations, but now we have thousands
19:09of new worries that didn't exist before
19:11. Some of them are still life-or-death,
19:14like COVID, or the next pandemic,
19:15because there will be one; it's just a
19:17matter of time. Others still unknown,
19:19which further exploits our anxiety,
19:21like the issue of microplastics, and
19:23thousands more that don't kill
19:24immediately, but keep us from living in
19:26peace, like those we've seen,
19:27accumulating fear after fear after fear
19:29. That is why a more advanced and
19:31secure world will never translate into
19:33fewer problems. It will create new ones
19:35, smaller, more subtle, but as a whole
19:37more damaging to the mind than the
19:38original problem itself. When you think
19:41about the future, don't imagine flying
19:43cars. Imagine people even more worried,
19:45more medicated, sicker, more cynical
19:47from believing that every technological
19:49advancement is positive for a human
19:51being who can no longer run. Oh.

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