Except that I see kids stuck in the teenage rebellion stage as a matter of course.Speaker to Animals wrote:I think the problem is in your analogy which assumes positive "growth".
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Cultural marxism is better compared to a cancer than to a legitimate stage of growth, in my opinion.
In many ways the "benign idealization" stage has huge benefits over this "opposition for the sake of opposition" stage.
If you stay stuck here your odds of doing well go down rather than up.
The nerds and jocks who remain idealizers often do better than the shit-disturbers and goths and who get stuck in that next stage...
Staying stuck here often leads to addiction and chronic dysfunction...
it's not necessarily a better outcome and can be a worse outcome than the preceding stage.
The goal is to move on and spend as little time here as necessary...