Chasing Excellence

Chasing Excellence

This Generation's Not Special

Daily Chase #210

Feb 24, 2026
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boy sitting on chair beside table using tablet computer
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

Parents today love to talk about how unprecedented everything is. How no generation has ever faced the challenge of screens. How technology is uniquely dangerous in ways nothing before it has been.

This is nonsense.

In the 1940s, there was no TV. By the 1970s, every household in America had one, and every kid was glued to…

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