Saving our freedoms and democracy, one peanut at a time
by Gavin Ashenden:
It could just be that peanuts might turn out to be the antidote to social media and save democracy at the beginning of the third millennium.
It’s a long shot, but this is why.
Universities have turned against free speech and help provide a mind set for the next generation. They are laboratories that form the most influential people entering society. Although perhaps given the nose dive in standards and drop in applications from men on the arts side, not quite as much as they used to. But still, they set people up to be skilled either for discovery , or more recently, with censorship from the Left, to be afraid of discovery.
Around about 2013, the move from enquiring to being afraid to find things out, began. This was when the kids who were born in and after 1995 began to turn up at university. I too easily lose track of which generation is called what, but this lot have been called ‘Generation Z’, or more memorably ‘iGen’.
Jean Twenge, a psychologist at San Diego State University did some research and discovered that there was a sudden and alarming step change in rates of anxiety and depression as well as a serious growth in suicide rates after the Millenials (those born roughly between 1980-1998.) had given way to the iGen. This constitutes a disaster for our children and their future. We need to know what caused it and what it will cause.
What happened to these children to cut the emotional and psychological ground of self-confidence and safety from under their feet?
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