{"id":5986,"date":"2016-12-03T04:33:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T04:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/03\/the-higher-infantilization-and-perpetual-childhood\/"},"modified":"2016-12-03T04:33:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T04:33:36","slug":"the-higher-infantilization-and-perpetual-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/03\/the-higher-infantilization-and-perpetual-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"The Higher Infantilization and Perpetual Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

I coined 'higher infantilization' recently to cover what is going on in so-called institutions of higher learning.  (The STEM disciplines excepted.) The New Criterion<\/a> provides a good explanation of this infantilization which is also a feminization:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cPerpetual childhood.\u201d Is there a better illustration of this enforced immaturity than the regime of \u201csafe spaces,\u201d \u201cmicroaggressions,\u201d and \u201ctrigger warnings\u201d on campus? Increasingly, today\u2019s students\u2014and their tutelary overseers\u2014are bred without intellectual or moral vertebrae. They exist in an amniotic fluid of shared prejudice that admits no challenging ideas from the world outside. The last few years have provided a series of high-profile and pathetic examples of what happens when these embryonic snowflakes collide with an opposing thought. Wailing. Protests. Excoriation. Disinvitation. Repudiation. The election of Donald Trump was the most serious violation of their safe space yet. There were no trigger warnings, for everyone they encountered assured them it was impossible. This was not a microaggression but a frontal assault. They responded accordingly, and with a unanimity that would make a murmuration of starlings seem haphazard.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read it all<\/a>, especially you girly girls, girly men, pajama boys, cry bullies and especially the lowest of the low, the cowardly and supine university administrators who by all appearances did their graduate studies in the  Department of the Abdication of Authority.<\/span><\/p>\n

University administrators weren't always authority-abdicating cowards.  See Three Profiles in Civil Courage Among University Administrators<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

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I coined 'higher infantilization' recently to cover what is going on in so-called institutions of higher learning.  (The STEM disciplines excepted.) The New Criterion provides a good explanation of this infantilization which is also a feminization: \u201cPerpetual childhood.\u201d Is there a better illustration of this enforced immaturity than the regime of \u201csafe spaces,\u201d \u201cmicroaggressions,\u201d and … Continue reading “The Higher Infantilization and Perpetual Childhood”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,498],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-authority-and-its-abdication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}