#dana boyd article

I found this very good article on (regrettably) linkedin:

https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io/no-one-paid-me-to-disagree-with-jonathan-haidt-it-was-teenagers-who-taught-me-that-he-was-wrong/

I want to capture this somewhere, because she writes
a paragraph that is central to the thesis I've been 
sitting on. It is this paragraph:

>Cuz here’s the thing… It IS possible to despise the 
>tech companies AND understand why teenagers use their 
>products and find value from doing so. Listen to 
>teenagers; they get these contradictions. Their hatred 
>of the tech companies is growing exponentially even as 
>they use the tools those companies provide. (You should 
>see their attitudes towards AI companies. Oooh-whee…) 
>It’s also possible to care about kids’ mental health AND 
>think that the solution doesn’t start and stop with tech. 
>And it’s possible to do rigorous research AND discover 
>that tech isn’t the biggest monster in teens’ lives that 
>anti-tech advocates think it is.

How?

Simone Weil provides substance in L'Enracinement, because
she asks how might one love the state while they must 
also hate the state? How does one love one's country when
it's stained by fascism?

This is the same question I want to answer; and really,
dana boyd doesn't give a satisfactory answer. There is a 
"it is possible", but not "how", and I'm left with trying
to understand the moral and ethical fabrics of this dilemma.

It is not enough that children know better. Obviously. This
is not to discredit her thought or findings, but her point is 
remarkably pedestrian for artists who retained the child-like 
view of the world (which is intensely contradictory and very 
raw and ruthless; not sentimental as many adults which it to be).

And so: how might one despite tech companies and understand
their value? This question runs so much deeper than "capitalism".
This is the moral question that has defined my life. And it's
also one that echoes throughout history; again, looking at
Weil who asked a question in the exact same shape.