12/07/2026
Why are so many young people anxious, angry, and searching for meaning?
At ARC 2026, Arthur Brooks argues that the deepest crisis facing Western civilization is not political but spiritual: a crisis of meaning. Drawing on neuroscience, happiness research, and his own family story, Brooks explains how smartphones and digital life have trapped us in a "left-brain" existence of information and distraction, leaving us starved for purpose, faith, and real human connection.
He offers a hopeful path forward: reclaiming meaning by changing our relationship with technology, asking life's biggest questions, and choosing to love people, use things, and worship what truly matters.
https://youtu.be/PfTcgYwW14E
Why are so many young people anxious, angry, and searching for mean...