And, I should add, it gave me more compassion for them. Feeling fragile isn’t a good thing. But instead of hating on people for it, I appreciated having a little more understanding of the climate they were growing up in.
I did. I found it gave me language to understand some of the baffling behaviors I saw in people of that age group, namely my younger brother-in-law and his fiancé. But also… increasingly I’m seeing those backwards beliefs on display on both extremes of the political spectrum.
And for that Coddling of the American Mind reaction... if they truly were attacking the morality of the author that way, they were also illustrating one of his 3 "untruths" : that life is a battle between good people and evil people... with no middle ground or room for nuance.
Exactly! Mostly they said that "untruth" was just a bogus thing for Haidt to argue, but they were demonstrating an awful lot of hostility while doing it. Did you like Coddling?
And, I should add, it gave me more compassion for them. Feeling fragile isn’t a good thing. But instead of hating on people for it, I appreciated having a little more understanding of the climate they were growing up in.
I did. I found it gave me language to understand some of the baffling behaviors I saw in people of that age group, namely my younger brother-in-law and his fiancé. But also… increasingly I’m seeing those backwards beliefs on display on both extremes of the political spectrum.
And for that Coddling of the American Mind reaction... if they truly were attacking the morality of the author that way, they were also illustrating one of his 3 "untruths" : that life is a battle between good people and evil people... with no middle ground or room for nuance.
Exactly! Mostly they said that "untruth" was just a bogus thing for Haidt to argue, but they were demonstrating an awful lot of hostility while doing it. Did you like Coddling?