We now process disaster socially by turning it into a platform for expression of our individual grievances…

We now process disaster socially by turning it into a platform for expression of our individual grievances and sensitivities. This is part of the victory of political libertarianism. Itself a victory for kidult culture, transformation of adult life into adolescent life. /1 https://t.co/C4XC3mZPnN

Robert Hughes saw this in his ‘Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America.’ “Thus the pursuit of the Inner Child has taken over just at the moment when Americans ought to be figuring out where their Inner Adult is, and how that disregarded oldster got buried…/2

…under the rubble of pop psychology and specious short-term gratification…The all-pervasive claim to victimhood tops off America's long-cherished culture of therapeutics…to be vulnerable is to be invincible.” /3

“Complaint gives you power - even when it's only the power of emotional bribery, of creating previously unnoticed levels of social guilt…In these and a dozen other ways we create an infantilized culture of complaint, in which Big Daddy is always to blame and the expansion…/4

…of rights goes on without the other half of citizenship - attachment to duties and obligations. To be infantile is a regressive way to defy the stress of corporate culture: Don't tread on me, I'm vulnerable.” /5

“The emphasis is on the subjective: how we feel about things, rather than what we think or can know.” /end