you mean the ones published by the rich and disgusting criminals?
sadly the systemic issues so many people thought were bullshit are very real. people need to read work from actual historians and not a collation of what they want us to believe.
not to say there arent any good history books, their are certainly plenty. McGraw hill however has wormed its way into nearly every american school and millions of peoples minds and wallets.
i know you likely werent referring to those history books, but i feel its something that everyone who read needs to be aware of.
i agree, the worst being shorts/tiktoks/reels. it absolutely kills your attention span and leads you to crave instant hits of dopamine. i see people watching reels etc. while the tv is playing a show that they are “watching” it drives me insane.
most social media is also meant to make you more lonely and depressed because you are more likely to use them when you are.
people compare themselves to the idealistic characters they see on social media and see that it is something they will never live up to, not realising that they arent supposed to.
there are obviously many complicated reasons and theories like inequality, idealism, manipulation, and the advancements that we have made in mental health that contribute to the issue. ive attempted to condense the topics into a word or sentence but as most of us know they are much deeper and more ambiguous than that.