I mean, in a way… good. Like, a 15 year old who listens to Jordan Peterson about how they should care for their mental health and work hard to achieve their goals is going to be better off than one who… I dunno… watches tiktoks about video games. Like, that individual will, legitimately, statistically, have better outcomes.
But this is problematic for society because it advances right wing rhetoric and creates a new generation of right wingers with a very legitimate claim that right wing thought is helpful for them.
If the left wants to fight back, they need to provide a competitively empowering message. They need to tell people that their concerns and desires are legitimate, and that it is within their power to improve their lives through their own actions.
Agreed, but now you have kids that have been raised on internet influencers as locos parentis, so it’s like they can skip the 10 year wait.
I mean, in a way… good. Like, a 15 year old who listens to Jordan Peterson about how they should care for their mental health and work hard to achieve their goals is going to be better off than one who… I dunno… watches tiktoks about video games. Like, that individual will, legitimately, statistically, have better outcomes.
But this is problematic for society because it advances right wing rhetoric and creates a new generation of right wingers with a very legitimate claim that right wing thought is helpful for them.
If the left wants to fight back, they need to provide a competitively empowering message. They need to tell people that their concerns and desires are legitimate, and that it is within their power to improve their lives through their own actions.