{"id":42227,"date":"2020-08-21T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=42227"},"modified":"2020-08-20T08:27:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T12:27:01","slug":"qotd-our-overprotective-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/08\/21\/qotd-our-overprotective-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Our overprotective culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Our society has become an overprotective mother. If you protect people, you reduce their competence.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a rule of thumb for dealing with elderly people in old age homes: Never do anything for anyone that they can do for themselves. It sounds cruel, but it&#8217;s not cruel.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the pathologies of our culture. A major pathology, and this is associated with a kind of immaturity and a kind of fear and this Oedipal mother problem, which is, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want you to suffer any distress right now.&#8221; Fine, but what about tomorrow and next week and next month? You might have to suffer a lot of distress right now so that you&#8217;re better next week and next month.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Peterson, <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalpost.com\/feature\/christie-blatchford-sits-down-with-warrior-for-common-sense-jordan-peterson\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Christie Blatchford Sits Down With &#8216;Warrior For Common Sense&#8217; Jordan Peterson&#8221;, <em>National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2018-02-07.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our society has become an overprotective mother. If you protect people, you reduce their competence. There&#8217;s a rule of thumb for dealing with elderly people in old age homes: Never do anything for anyone that they can do for themselves. It sounds cruel, but it&#8217;s not cruel. This is one of the pathologies of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,41],"tags":[598,262,1204,906,139],"class_list":["post-42227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-quotations","tag-aging","tag-culture","tag-jordanpeterson","tag-mentalhealth","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aZ5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42227"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59712,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42227\/revisions\/59712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}