What does safety rob from us? According to researcher Johnathon Haidt rates of injuries have decreased in children, but their mental well being is clearly in question.
Parents Can’t Live Their Kids’ Lives For Them
Injuries, risk, even danger are all things are part of the path for growing into confident adults. Pushing our kids out of comfort zones is THE critical factor for fostering their sense of independence.
That sense of self confidence is what the collectivist hate.
When 2 Miles Is Not 6 Miles
The Kentucky Natural Bridge can be a short hike, or a long trek if you happen to traverse the basin, through miles of brush. My son, 14 at the time, kept insisting at we had traveled half the route when we had only gone 2 miles out of the 11 that we faced.
The New Language of Neurosis
As we discussed in the SNR Episode Vernal, we are instill an instinct of panic, status, of waiting for a higher authority to validate and empower us:
We see this deconstruction of positive, courageous role models in fathers and mothers in the intersectional, cultural Marxist philosophy of the transgender, BLM, transhumanist, academia. and psychology and counseling arenas. School curriculum has inappropriately adopted the use of psychoanalytical vocabulary, gender fluidity has entered the health education teaching. This is by design, accomplished by the Tavistock Institute in Britain.
COVID, and the resulting conditions of sleep disorders, depression and dopamine addiction, has pushed generations into a deprived state of mental development. In short, kinds and teens had no spring, they were conditioned to disconnect from their surroundings and connect collectively on social media. This collective shuttered the thinking processes, and in some, walled off their rational thinking abilities. For the young, it resulted in harmful developmental set backs.
https://medium.com/@Bigphaze/oedipus-complex-99dd75facdb0
For example, a person’s prefrontal cortex (associated with rational thinking) is supposed to have developed by the age of four. This part of the brain is developed through social interactions with others. You fight, you punch, you bite, you insult… But because you are interacting with others, they can easily tell you what is, and what isn’t acceptable in a social setting.
In Plato’s book, the Republic, the concept of individualism is eradicated, and children are taught the value of collectivity — of community. Children are raised communally — not just by parents. This, he believes, is the proper way to raise a child. But we are too “modern” to allow that to happen.