30 June

Sir Richard Barrons, former Commander of Joint Forces Command in Europe, highlighting that without existential threat to societies, they degenerate into ‘snowflake’ culture, wallowing in feelings and obsessed with furthering their own status (identity). Identity culture is the culture of the feels. What I call kidult culture, where feelings replace reality. We’re not feeling how ‘enormously fragile’ this makes us, because we’re hiding from reality in social media bubbles of toxic positivity. Fantasy worlds where we can all have big bowls of strawberry ice cream, to quote Marge Simpson. To be an adult is to find dealing with the actual reality fun, and the fantasy abhorrent.