Why Banning TikTok Will Only Make Youth More Cynical

Joshua Adams
3 min readApr 30, 2024

Wise old-heads are always fighting against the cynicism of youth. As long as there are politics (both capital and lowercase “p”), this will always be a dynamic we have to fight against.

Often younger generations tend to default to a kind of “politicians are all the same” heuristic; that despite the specificities of ideology, policy and platforms, neither party really has…

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Joshua Adams

Joshua Adams is a writer from Chicago. UVA & USC. Assistant Professor at Columbia College Chicago. Twitter: @ProfJoshuaA