Political correctness and so many of the political fashions of our day – from academic feminism to cultural studies to queer theory – could only be perpetrated on adolescent minds: minds, that is, that are trained to search out one thing and one thing only: Is my teacher, or this politician, or that public spokesman, saying something that is likely to be offensive to me or members of any other victim group? Only an adolescent would find it worthwhile to devote his or her attention chiefly to the hunting of offenses, the possibility of slights, real and imagined.
-Joseph Epstein (The Perpetual Adolescent)
We can thank our Education system for perpetuating the pack of pestilent pupils that now roam the countryside. Always looking for the next dopamine hit from finding yet another case to wind up their adolescent and asinine sense of faux-outrage/ 2 Minutes of Hate.
The Left has turned the Education System into an emotional rage machine, flaring the hormones and quicksand formally known as Societal norms and morality. And the one thing that none of these “missionaries” and “cannon fodder” can’t STAND is being told “No!”.
As has been said before: “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”
Prof. Don Boudreaux adds:
DBx: Yep. And so it follows that much of today’s so-called “education” – primary, secondary, post-secondary, and post-graduate – is about ensuring that minds remain forever adolescent.
It is no sign of enlightenment, liberalism, or intelligence to accord, because you fear that some people might mistake you as being insufficiently opposed to the alt-right, intellectual credibility to the nonsense being “taught” today by “teachers” of the humanities and the social sciences.
(H/T: Cafe Hayek)
