This reads a lot to me like Sokrates’ speech that the children are all spoiled today. I.e. it has always been that way but people continuously assume that they have it especially bad in that regard.
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DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 days ago
Already a term for it… maybe they weren’t aware of it on account of being twelve.
theconversation.com/the-infantilization-of-wester…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantilization
Smacks of condescension, elitism, and historical naivety while being a short step away from bemoaning degenerated modernity to me.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
Sorry, socially engineered infantilization is just an explanation, not a justification.