Sublime

Moreover, those whose playtime and social lives moved online found themselves increasingly wandering through adult spaces, consuming adult content, and interacting with adults in ways that are often harmful to minors. So even while parents worked to eliminate risk and freedom in the real world, they generally, and often unknowingly, granted full in

I had discovered, at college, that there were people who seemed predestined to succeed, as if good fairies had granted success as their gift at their baptisms. I had had the vague idea that accomplishment was something you attained after serving a long apprenticeship at some difficult trade, years and years after college. But by the time I graduate

quiet—and women are cautious.

when women do minister to men’s hurt feelings, they tend to be rewarded. And when they do not, they are liable to be punished.

those who don’t identify with a tight-knit community inevitably undervalue the moral foundations, loyalty and restraint, that require a community, an attitude that further alienates them from any such community; these indispensable moral foundations are thus liable to continue to lose appeal.

“The spirit of the times is one of joyless urgency,” writes the essayist Marilynne Robinson, who observes that many of us spend our lives “preparing ourselves and our children to be means to inscrutable ends that are utterly not our own.” Our struggle to stay on top of everything may serve someone’s interests; working longer hours—and using any ext

60 Love your own, in other words, but make sure that others have the resources to do the same.

Nietzsche's public audience was likely to be sympathetic to one of the main stands he took in his lectures. If we reduce the value of higher education to the material return on our financial investment, we will impoverish CC our culture and diminish ourselves.

precocious.