The Infantilization Of The American Mind.

It is slow. It is insidious. It is glacial in its corruption of the American mind. This interview with Jonathan Haidt, co-author of "The Coddling of the American Mind", is brilliant. We have raised a generation of Americans who are "triggered" my "micro-aggressions", and need "safe spaces" to avoid having their soft, malleable brains from being psychically injured by the words of others. How did this happen? Haidt traces it to around 2014 and 2015, and has an insight that struck me. My generation fought the restrictions on free speech of an entrenched bureaucracy. The coddling conspiracy has its origins in the millennials whom we have coddled their entire lives. Is it a surprise that these young people, who have been given "participation ribbons" just for showing up to competitions, feel entitled to be protected from all hurt and anguish? We need a new curriculum, a boot camp for young minds, at which we assault them with opposing ideas, and require them to formulate an intelligent response before they can pass. How will the next generation defend itself from evil in the world if they can't tolerate hostile rhetoric?