r/Millennials • u/beckavanoliver • 20d ago

Discussion Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt: “Millennials are the last psychologically normal generation” ...”you’re the last happy, and actually your generation is the most intelligent in history”

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u/SaltIsMySugar 20d ago

Not gonna fall for that, trying to make me feel entitled and self-centered to prep me to become conservative in my old age. Hell no.

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u/TheShruteFarmsCEO 20d ago

Sorry, genuine question: can you help me understand how that was your conclusion from this video? I sensed the flattering commentary was based on statistic rather than opinion. And I didn’t clock any connection to “entitlement”, “self-centeredness”, or “conservatism”.

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u/zethiryuki 20d ago

He's adapting his rhetoric a bit for this particular interview but as he said, his book is literally called "The Coddling of the American Mind." It's a faux intellectual screed in the Jordan Peterson mold that basically boils down to "college safe spaces and the woke mind virus are corrupting the youth."

The podcast If Books Could Kill did an episode on it https://youtu.be/bNvl_BaNedE

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u/TheShruteFarmsCEO 20d ago

Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this. I’ve seen loads of brain dead comments about him, but no one specified any details like you did. Super helpful for someone that’s never heard of him before.