Making Children Crazy

There’s something special about Hollywood. There’s something very special about being the child of a Hollywood celebrity. Apparently, these children of privilege have lost their minds. They went or are going to the best schools, but they have bought all of the basic tenets and precepts of the woke mind virus.

Take the case of Ramona Sarsgaard, recently arrested for protesting in favor of Palestine at Columbia University.

Bethany Mandel explains:

Case in point: Ramona Sarsgaard, the 18-year-old daughter of actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, who was arrested this month for criminal trespass during a pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University’s Butler Library.

If you have nothing better to do with your time, why not spend your family capital by making a blithering fool of yourself?

Sarsgaard is also a climate activist, working to save the planet from global warming. A junior Greta Thunberg, if you wish.

Mandel writes:

Sarsgaard marched in the Youth Climate Strike in New York and, according to her mother, is among the many children who “aren’t able to push out of their minds the dire situation that we’re in.”

An army of overgrown children has mobilized to promote mindless leftist causes. 

And then there is Violet Affleck:

Just this week Violet Affleck, 19, daughter of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, published an essay in Yale University’s “Global Health Review” describing a heated conflict with her mother earlier this year.

“I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room,” she wrote — in fights triggered by Garner’s shock at the devastation.

“As a lifelong Angelena and climate-literate member of Generation Z,” Violet explained, “my question had not been whether the Palisades would burn but when.”

She went on to call climate change an “existential and accelerating” crisis.

In short, these gullible young people have drunk the climate change Kool-Aid

Mandel explains:

Affleck’s worldview was deliberately drilled into her by climate activists, who have groomed an entire generation to join their crusade.

At institutions like Yale, climate anxiety is treated as a developmental inevitability.

An advice column in a Yale newsletter a few years ago instructed parents and caregivers to lead even the youngest children through therapeutic climate exercises, like imagining their favorite animal being impacted by climate change and speaking from its perspective.

Activists have set out to traumatize the younger generation, with some success:

Just imagine launching that conversation with your 4-year-old: “Think of Peter Rabbit. Now imagine Peter has run out of food and dies because he’s too thirsty, has no grass to eat, and no shade to take refuge in as temperatures soar.”

You couldn’t come up with a more traumatic lesson for a young child to engage in if you tried —yet the “experts” at Yale recommend it as a therapeutic template to explain to children that the world is ending.

At the least, this effort to traumatize the young has produced a mental illness:

A global 2021 study on climate anxiety found that in 31 of 32 countries, distress about climate change was linked to poorer mental health.

In another survey of 10,000 young people across 10 nations, three-quarters said “the future is frightening,” and more than half believed that “humanity is doomed.”

And yet the same activists, media outlets and global institutions that amplify climate alarmism are now wringing their hands over the youth mental-health crisis.

And Mandel continues:

A pair of Stanford University psychiatrists, discussing the 2021 anxiety study on the World Economic Forum website, sought to normalize what they called “climate distress” — defining it as a troubling blend of dread, sadness, powerlessness and anger.

It’s “a normal and appropriate thing to feel,” they claimed, in the face of “hurricanes, droughts and floods, and clear evidence that our planetary boundaries are being overshot.”

They’re fighting an existential battle to save the planet — one they’ve been convinced is rapidly coming to an end.

And as Sarsgaard demonstrates, they’re easy prey for those pushing the next leftist cause du jour.

They represent an entire generation driven off the deep end by their own manufactured anxiety.

Irony of ironies--   a generation of adults has given up on the notion of curing mental illness and emotional distress. They have gone into the business of producing it.