Campus radicals give us a horrible glimpse of the future
by Dan Hannan, Washington Examiner:
These are not the first students to become obsessed by an overseas war. A generation ago, the protests were about Iraq. A generation before that, Vietnam. A generation before that, Spain.
But something has changed. Student radicals were always angry, usually illogical, and often violent. What is new is their whiny hypersensitivity. Can you imagine anti-Vietnam activists complaining because the authorities were insufficiently respectful of someone’s banana allergy? Or demanding that the college authorities send them food?
There is something quite comical about the juxtaposition, demanding the right to disrupt and destroy while simultaneously insisting that everyone else defer to their minutest delicacies. The protesters at UCLA even stipulated vegan and gluten-free food (but, naturally, no bagels already).
Where previous generations of radicals covered their features to avoid identification, these are among the last people in the world still wearing lockdown-era face masks. They have, as Jonathan Haidt puts it, been overprotected in the real world and under-protected online.
They have spent more time alone than any previous generation. If you are over 30, a fair chunk of your childhood will have involved playing with other children. You will have learned, through these interactions, that life involves give and take.
How different is the experience of the children who grew up glued to screens, isolated, overstimulated, solipsistic.
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