alecm<p><strong>The Coddling of the Boomer Parental Guilt-Complex</strong></p><p>I’m simply gobsmacked that <a href="https://twitter.com/JonHaidt" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">an author</a> who is popularly known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coddling_of_the_American_Mind" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">one of the lead critics of safetyism and the risks inherent in figuratively wrapping one’s children in cotton wool to protect them for the world</a>, should now whirl in-place and start demanding bans and blocks to stop kids talking to one another — finding community, finding agency, and possibly finding themselves — because somehow in <a href="https://twitter.com/JonHaidt/status/1773695910167330819" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the past 5 to 15 years he reckons</a> that <a href="https://twitter.com/JonHaidt/status/1774056254287323432" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">everything has changed?</a></p><p>It’s <a href="https://twitter.com/sarthakgh/status/1774067802741019071" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">not even science</a>, it’s <a href="https://twitter.com/JonHaidt/status/1774068575252443344" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">speculation</a> to the point of <a href="https://twitter.com/JonHaidt/status/1774068575252443344" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">admission</a>, and (worse) it’s going to be infecting <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/3da18ca4-2d5a-4a1b-958f-4316d8e60665?shareType=nongift" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">other talking heads</a> who will <em>“preach the controversy”</em>; there are others who are <a href="https://twitter.com/jeffjarvis/status/1774068008542994598" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">brave enough to fight to hold back this spillage of gut feels</a> but, <em>really</em>, we don’t need this pseudoscience, not ever, but especially in a US election year.</p><p>So why do this? We don’t need detailed studies and evidence of pros and cons, obviously, so it’s clear from correlation that all this coverage is:</p><ol><li>in support of Jon Haidt’s new book</li><li>in support of clicks for advertising</li><li>because, like everything documented in <em>The Coddling of The American Mind</em>, fear affects a generation who are prone to being scared of that which they don’t understand, won’t read independent peer-reviewed research regarding, and which reactionary media tells them to blindly be scared of</li></ol><p>…and in this case it’s the generation who just launched their kids and are looking to make reparations by making the same mistakes their parents did, differently.</p><p><a href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/109529" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://alecmuffett.com/article/109529</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/coddling" target="_blank">#coddling</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/jonathan-haidt" target="_blank">#jonathanHaidt</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/safetyism" target="_blank">#safetyism</a></p>