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The farther left you lean, the more anxious, depressed, and unhappy you are
Data shows that the farther left you lean, the more anxious, depressed, and unhappy you are
In their 2015 article and 2018 book, “ The Coddling of the American Mind,” Greg and Jonathan Haidt argue that (practices like catastrophizing, black and white thinking, overgeneralizing, discounting positives, and emotional reasoning) and overprotecting children results in an external locus of control, helplessness and despair, and both the mental health crisis and the rampant culture of illiberalism on campus that we’re seeing today. Certainly, the two major concerns from the 2015 article have borne out, with academic freedom and free speech on campus being threatened at an unprecedented scale since 2014 — but especially since 2017 — and mental health of young people tanking to a degree even greater than even Greg and Jon ever predicted. But if we begin teaching our youth antifragility rather than fragility, that words are not violence, that exposure to dissent not only doesn’t hurt you but actually makes you a stronger, more capable thinker and person, it will be no surprise when we start seeing the mental health of young people increase over time.
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