Dealing with grown up children...
Children grow into adults - or used to - in vast numbers. Four decades of cultural marxism, has now reduced the amount of young people entering adulthood as grown up, well rounded, individuals.
Maybe 'mature people' is a better expression for well rounded adults...
As a child grows to adulthood, lessons learned during the transition years allows them to define things differently.
Logic, reason, calmness are just some changing qualities, (from using emotional tactics or blackmail, to achieve goals, for example)
Childish behaviors..
Needing an authority figure
Having tantrums
Using emotional strategies to achieve goals (instead of logic and reason)
Which pretty much sums up quite a few attributes of the 'left.'
Needing authority – big government – A nanny state.
Tantrums – In the grown up world, violence.
Emotional strategies – Virtue signalling, and SJW's
Pandering to these grown up children does no one any good.
In fact it makes things immeasurably worse, as it only validates their actions.
While adulthood automatically gives you rights, acting like a child only invalidates your assumed position in society as a grown up.
As a mature person.
This becomes very apparent, as the left continue to exhibit more and more extreme behavior....
Lying to try and convince people of their own legitimacy ( CNN)
Tantrums - Black lives matter, Antifa, Rioting.
Needing authority - The paradoxical (childish) logic of protesting against police, but wanting big nanny government to look after them- universal basic income, for example.
Of course the actions of these grown up children will only become more extreme - as tantrums increase - as they feel they not being listened to, not taken seriously. (hahahahahah)
Without ever seeing the ridiculousness of their own position.
Because they are still children , in grown up bodies.
Encouraging any childish behavior, only perpetuates the problem.
As a society, we cannot ignore these grown up children - they now posses power, that they never had as children.
That is dangerous.
And the price we pay for this, right now, is the crazy situations we find ourselves in, all around the world.
The answer?
Consistency, calmness, and a steadfast knowing about who is in charge.( parents?)
Four decades of cultural marxism, has the left the children not knowing the sound of the parent anymore.
There in no painless transition back.
This is a battle of wills between the children, and the adults.
These are the sides.
They have stayed up late for bed - around 4 decades too long. This fills them with a sense of importance - of being all grown up.
They are feeling all grown up – without realizing they are still children.
In fairness- as children- you can't expect reason and maturity from them.
We start accepting t he children knowing ' best' ?
The children will burn the house down, while the grown ups are sleeping.
(And then cry about having nowhere to live.)
And when they have no parents anymore?....
They will cry and cry, and cry, asking for the very authority back, that allowed themselves to be usurped - by children -in the name of political correctness, and social justice....
And some authority will happily step up, and fill the position...
...A living hell is on its way, if the parents don't let the kids know who's the boss.
I feel that while your analysis has its interesting and good points.
You are, in my opinion, correct in stating that less people are "maturing".
However I would be far more hesitant to attribute this to a rise in a particular political ideology, just as I would hesitate to consider this shift to be a wholly negative situation.
Yes human adults have grown to be both more sensitive as well as less stoic. Of course this in itself is a generalization as while some among the youth are certainly softer in outlook, others embrace popular peer activities that artificially harden them. Such could be a sub-culture or a political-alignment.
I do not feel the need to single any sub-culture out as I feel that it is a more beneficial exercise to try and see the good in peoples' choices. For instance - is a more emotionally driven generation necessarily a bad thing? Were previous generations less passionate?
Yes some do feel lost - but perhaps this marks a gap in their education that can be addressed rather than an irredeemable flaw with the generation as a whole.
Thank you for sharing.