"Emotional immaturity" abounds in all ages. We see it on OLO everyday. Overreaction is becoming the norm. Opinion is mistaken for wisdom. In the real world, look at all the screeching (particularly from females) at police and 'opponents' during mindless and meaningless demonstrations/riots that Leftist goons feel the need to stage to express their childish and juvenile feelings.

The "even mild exposure to social media" causing us to believe that the world is worse than it really is seems to be valid. We get a constant barrage of doom and gloom from the media, particularly from the super-negative ABC: climate change, China virus, arson, crime, sexual perversion, whining feminism, claims of sexual assault and domestic violence, as well as constant, sneering attacks on our Western civilisation. Most of the gloom and doom affects relatively few of us, but we are all being taught to be fearful and paranoid. Female news readers, instead of reporting the news, openly emote, and force their personal opinions into stories by word or facial expression.

The rot is not in just social media (where at least everyone gets a say) it is in THE media, where yelling at the TV or radio is all we can do. Complain about anything formally, and you are ignored. The MSM is running neck and neck with politicians for the prize for causing the most trouble in society.

The age of the mollycoddled.

Speaking of emotional immaturity such an emotional retard now haunts the White House and the collective American psyche. A emotional retard who never ever exercises anything like reason, and who is completely devoid of any kind of compassion

How many downright lies and exercises in reactive petty vindictiveness has he tweeted so far?

What does that say about the emotional maturity and the capacity to use/exercise reason and compassion of his die-hard supporters.

Well, Mell, the Nazi butchers certainly didn't overreact! Did they?

As for your essay, Loaded to the gunnels with inconclusive unproven intellectual concepts? That some PHD may have composed?

I get that you think that the covid-19 pandemic is just not as bad as some think? And use the musings of some psychological practitioner to speculate on whether or not we are overreacting?

Suggest you go to Victoria and write your peice from there, then see how well it plays for the grieving over those this pandemic has killed!?

To date this (most contagious ever) pandemic has created some 14 mllion casualties the world over and over half a million dead. And has just begun!?

Moreover, even though some young folk do not seem hugely effected?

Not conclusive yet by any means that this is so? Given the possibility of permanent if undetected damage to major organs, which may include the brain?

Or that one may remain infected and possibly infectious for as many as four months at a time?

And that the infected may not get Automatic immunity? And could be reinfected time after time with more and more harm to internal organs each time? And that being so? May eventually prove fatal? But only after seriously downsizing their former IQ? Which may not have been that enormous to begin with?

If we have changed? I believe for some of us, it has been for the worse and as exampled in the Nazis? Totally self-aborbed and uncaring, comletely lacking in normal human empathy? And converted to an, I'm alright Jack, individualism culture?

I mean, some aged care workers want to know, when they should wear their supplied potective gear and when to take it off?

PUT IT ON, START OF SHIFT. TAKE IT OFF, END OF SHIFFT!And for the meal/coffee break,then back on after it, GENIUS!

Use new gloves for each patient! And sanitize hands before and after each patient, Genius!
Alan B.

Emotion, particularly the one for compassion, has now reached a stage where it is nothing but some new vogue thing !
Since common sense has been outlawed by the Left, nonsense has become the order of the day.
Only raw, utter need will ever rectify this idiocy !

ttbn,

Once more you beat me to the keyboard.
Those of us with open minds and objectivity don't get much of a look in, even though we continue to say it like it is.
Some people appear to exude compassion, but I fear it is a knee jerk reaction to self preservation, in a very critical society.
Much like religion, if you are not seen to practice it, by your peers, you will be seen in a disparaging way or admonished, even outcast.
So you go along with it so as to not trigger any discomfort.
I often wonder why it is that in a rally, such as the BLM, why there are so many white people?
And of course the overarching question, who was this moron with such a high standing and regard, who had unequivocal evidence that black lives DON'T matter?
And further to that why does it appear so many (well actually, I should say, so few, as the numbers are insignificant to count as anything worthy of public opinion) have elected to go along with yet another farce.
As I have always said, nearly all of these rallies and causes are a beat-up created and promoted by very self serving, dishonest, scum with a personal agenda, either popularity or wealth seeking, most of the time, both.
Reason will never prevail as long as we have greed and self interest.
As for compassion, I think we all have, within us, some modicum of compassion, it just depends on how and where we use it and in what amounts.