My thanks to my friends Tim Wilson, Ralph Wood and Tom Murphy for alerting me to the Gareth Southgate lecture. For this year’s invited speaker for the renowned Richard Dimbleby lecture at the BBC, you might think that a former football manager would be something of a strange selection. Not so.
If you have forty minutes to spare, can I recommend that you
take the time to watch. The talk is to do with belief and resilience, particularly
in inspiring young men to move away from toxic social media and to seek out
mentors and teachers - people that will encourage them.
As the talk highlights, We are in danger of creating a
generation of ‘lost boys’, caught in a downward cycle of targeted social media,
aspiring to have the perfect body and the perfect life, but ending up taking
their own lives. Gaming, gambling and pornography are controlling the lives of
young men who spend more time on their smartphones then they do in talking to
anyone in the real world. The fact that there are more young men with
smartphones then there are with fathers is a damning statistic for our country.
But there is hope……
BBC IPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00293l5/the-richard-dimbleby-lecture-sir-gareth-southgate
