![]() ![]() The authors give a whole chapter to each untruth starting with a quotation that supports the content and well-researched and -referenced material. People act with good intentions but implement ideas and policies inconsistent with ancient wisdom found in widely in literature of many cultures that contradict modern psychological research on well-being, and that harm individuals and communities who embrace it. The authors say this book is about wisdom and its opposite. ![]() In 2015, Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendment lawyer, and Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist, collaborated to publish an article arguing that the harmful thought patterns that harmed student’s mental health and interfered with their intellectual development were growing.Ĭoddling, or overprotecting, are problems of progress, and America’s young have been unknowingly taught “mental habits commonly seen in people who suffer from anxiety and depression.” And the tumultuous years following the published article provoked them to revisit the issues addressed there. ![]() What do peanut butter allergies and safe spaces have in common? What do witch hunts and free-range kids have to do with each other? They all are consequences of safetyism and reinforce bad mental habits addressed in the book The Coddling of the American Mind. ![]()
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