
The Coddling of the American Mind
How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
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Jonathan Haidt
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Coddling of the America Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, read by Jonathan Haidt.
What doesn't kill you makes you weaker
Always trust your feelings
Life is a battle between good people and evil people
These three Great Untruths contradict basic psychological principles about well-being, as well as ancient wisdom from many cultures. And yet they have become increasingly woven into education, culminating in a stifling culture of "safetyism" that began on American college campuses and is spreading throughout academic institutions in the English-speaking world.
In this book, free speech campaigner Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt investigate six trends that caused the spread of these untruths, from the decline of unsupervised play to the corporatization of universities and the rise of new ideas about identity and justice.
Lukianoff and Haidt argue that well-intended but misguided attempts to protect young people can hamper their development, with devastating consequences for them, for the educational system and for democracy itself.
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"Excellent...their advice is sound...liberal parents, in particular, should read it" (Edward Luce)
"An important if disturbing book.... Lukianoff and Haidt tell a plausible story" (Niall Ferguson)
"A compelling and timely argument against attitudes and practises that, however well-intended, are damaging our universities, harming our children and leaving an entire generation intellectually and emotionally ill-prepared for an ever-more fraught and complex world. A brave and necessary work." (Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks)
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A great read for anyone not already a paid up SJW and hence potentially impervious to the contents.
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Simply Perfect
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Essential listening for every parent
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Nuanced and well researched
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Required reading for educators.
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A significant contribution to education and youth
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He can recognise the causes of the problem but still clings desperately to the idea that leftist ideas are just being used for bad purposes rather than simply being the poison themselves. I think the author knows that all the relevant mechanisms in his theory are all tactics of the left but in order to hedge against the cancellation he knows this would invoke he regularly throws in some blame to the mythical 'rising right-wing' that is somehow everywhere without actually ever being anywhere. This is especially laughable because we are talking about university campuses.
Oh and the book even has some orange man bad with the author pushing the 'very fine people' lie because TDS sells or something.
The author's claim that the left and right have equally contributed to the decline of tolerance and the rise censorship has not aged well at all.
The irony that the author himself is now denounced as right wing by those of his former fellow travellers for the great crime of pointing out how they were contributing to the problem.
But, despite all that, this book does a reasonable job of explaining the rise of safetyism and how it causes the insanity and divisions gripping America.
Evidence free right winger blame ruins the theory
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Eye opening
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Deeply Important & Highly Engaging
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