More confirmation that we are living under military rule on a national level and that Kamala Harris has been picked to be the mascot for the elitists who now call the shots. I am writing this as someone who refuses to vote for either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump.
The "news." If you still have even a little bit of respect for corporate news, check out this mashup of the coverage of Walz vs Vance.
Greg Lukianoff offered this summary of The Coddling of the American Mind as part of an update:
The central premise of the book is that we are giving a generation of young people extraordinarily terrible advice and then being frustrated with them when they follow it. We argue that we are unintentionally teaching a generation of students three “great untruths.” They are:The great untruth of fragility: What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker.
The great untruth of emotional reasoning: Always trust your feelings.
The great untruth of us versus them: Life is a battle between good people and evil people.
(Note: In my most recent book with the great Rikki Schlott, The Canceling of the American Mind, we have added a fourth great untruth, The Great Untruth of Ad Hominem, “bad people only have bad opinions.”)"
I wonder whether a motivator is that in these highly dysfunctional times, we crave being to be the morally pure protagonists of our story. It's cheap and easy to polarize the narrative and to blame others for every dysfunctional thing we notice.
