So he wrote a book. In The Coddling of the American Mind, Jonathan and his co-author Greg Lukianoff argue that Gen Zers are engaging in cognitive distortions and objecting to so many small things, they're actually making themselves weaker. Now, those problems may be graduating to the workplace with them.
There are two separate trends. One is the rise of anxiety and depression—that's happening at nearly all schools in the U.S. and Canada, as far as we can tell. Students are more fragile and easily discouraged. They expect more protection. Something really happened to kids born in 1996 and after.
Part of the problem is we began overprotecting kids in the 1990s from threats, mistakes, things that upset them. At the same time we let them on social media too young, which seems to cause many of them chronic stress about their social presentation.
The second trend, which is not nearly as widespread, is that fragility and anxiety get converted into political demands about speech as violence. Continue here....
-- Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff
