Long, but one of the best articles I've read in a long time, accurately diagnosing and tracking what some have called 'the pussification of America', where trophies are handed out just for showing up, dealing with failure has gone from a crucial part of development to something to be sheltered against at all costs, where socialization has gone from learning to tolerate the thoughts of others to ostracizing and persecuting anyone who doesn't toe the social line... a country where, if you are in the majority, you are taught to feel an inherent guilt like original sin over what you think and feel and if you are in the minority - any minority - your thoughts and feelings become a sacrosanct thing, to be protected and even encouraged regardless of actual merit. Where diversity for diversity's sake has become a religion, one that - ironically - has the ultimate result of ensuring everyone thinks and feels the same way. Where, in fact, thinking has become confused and conflated with feeling.
Anyway, the article tracks the evolution of this mindset, particularly through social media and the fact that the first generation for whom this has been a way of life is graduating and heading to college... highly recommended.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/
Anyway, the article tracks the evolution of this mindset, particularly through social media and the fact that the first generation for whom this has been a way of life is graduating and heading to college... highly recommended.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/
