Too Much Input

 

Today, 4/6/25, I saw a Jordan Peterson clip on Facebook: he had concluded that young people today have too much freedom and too many choices, so many that they are overwhelmed and shut down.  Current rates of depression and youth society are very high and distressing.

 

Now, I believe that freedom is a blessing and if one’s lives in a blessed country like American where choices are near limitless, then it can be daunting.

 

I would rather the young be faced with the burdens of too much freedom, too many choices, and too much information, than a paucity of all three.

 

Still, Jordan raises a wise cautionary.

 

My primary response is a common sense one: were children in America or anywhere reared up as rational egoists, dedicated to, worshiping and in service to an individuating good deity, morally prompted to self-realize in line with egoist morality and individual-living, and finding their identity as individuals primarily through the route of maverizing, then they, generally, as a group, would be rather well-equipped to navigate incoming opportunities, too much freedom or too little freedom, too much information or too little information, too many choices rather than too few choices.

 

A brilliant, smart, tough, confident, independent, artistic maverizer of 18 should be able to handle most of what comes her way, and she ordinarily should be strong enough inside to reach out for assistance or therapy, when she requires an emotional boost.