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I agree with a lot of this (though I think you under-estimate how social a lot of young people's online life is). But I can't agree that it's government/council regulation that has created the changes you describe. It's people, of our own free will - obsessed with status, possessions, cars...

On the other hand, Yuval Noah Harari (in his book, Sapiens, I think) suggests that the highpoint for being alive is just before humans settled 10-11,000 years ago. Since then, our Faustian pact with agriculture has led us as a species to species "cast off our intimate symbiosis with nature and...

Damn you and your facts. OK "a child born seven years ago who has survived this long ..." or something like that. The reason it's seven is that there is higher mortality among the youngest children.

A 7 year old born in the West today is the safest person who has ever lived - more likely to make their next birthday than any person ever. I got this factoid from a book by the fella who is Professor of Risk at Cambridge University. Good job title, I think.