"Raised in a Birdcage of Optimization"

Violent protection and the modern American teenager

I came across a Twitter thread recently from a user named @_tedks—we’ll refer to this user as “Ted” for the rest of this newsletter. I don’t know anything about this Twitter user, but the charts this user shared details of how modern children and teens are “raised in a birdcage of optimization.” Here’s what the user wrote in the first tweet of the threa…