Mary Gaitskill: belief

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…At the margin, what should be we doing more of to help troubled teenagers? More therapy, more medications, something else? Wow, you like to ask big questions. I could answer that if you presented me with an individual. I can’t answer that. That’s not my field, for one thing, but also, even if it was, I don’t know if I could . . . I think the broadest answer that a lot of people, including professionals, would agree with is, the problem is this can’t be implemented. If there was a way to limit social media, I think that would help. If there was a way to get people more physically active and more grounded in their body, but you can’t have mass meditation classes for teenagers. I can’t picture that at all. People are so different. Some kid might be very amenable to the idea of learning some kind of meditation technique or breathing technique or get interested in martial arts or something like that, but you can’t say, “This is what everybody needs to do.” I think if there was a way to get people more grounded in their bodies, that would help, and not so fixated on social media. The problem is that no one can figure out how to implement something like that on a mass basis. A very specific question. For how long will you look for a lost cat?…

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