There Are No Good Choices
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt
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The problem is rooted in the central falsehood that choice from a menu of options constitutes power. Ultimately, this serves to reinforce the idea that the limit of our agency as individuals is exactly that, as individuals, when the challenges we face are fundamentally collective, and require collective action in response.
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