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The Vanishing American Adult Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance

Ben Sasse

THE INSTANT Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents and coddled by well-meaning but misbegotten government programs, America's youth are ill-equipped to survive in our highly-competitive global economy.

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Lovett or Leave It

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Lovett or Leave It

Senator Ben Sasse blamed video games in his 2017 book for making kids softer, claiming that 5 million Americans play 45 hours of video games per week.

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In his 2017 book, The Vanishing American Adult, Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse blamed video games for making kids softer, chiding the 5 million Americans who he claims play 45 hours of video games a week.

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Senator Ben Sasse blamed video games in his 2017 book for making kids softer, claiming that 5 million Americans play 45 hours of video games per week.

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In his 2017 book, The Vanishing American Adult, Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse blamed video games for making kids softer, chiding the 5 million Americans who he claims play 45 hours of video games a week.

The Daily Stoic

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The Daily Stoic

The book is mentioned in the context of age segregation in society and how the author found value in intergenerational relationships, similar to his experiences with Charlie White. The author of the podcast mentions a passage about how age segregation is weird, and that young people hang out with young people and old people with old people.

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one of the pages I have in there I was struck by this passage in in senator Ben sass's book the vanishing american at all and he's talking he says you know if an alien came down to earth one of the th...

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The book is mentioned in the context of age segregation in society and how the author found value in intergenerational relationships, similar to his experiences with Charlie White. The author of the podcast mentions a passage about how age segregation is weird, and that young people hang out with young people and old people with old people.

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one of the pages I have in there I was struck by this passage in in senator Ben sass's book the vanishing american at all and he's talking he says you know if an alien came down to earth one of the things that would strike them weird about our society he says is how age segregated we are that basically young people spend time with young people old people spend time with old people

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