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The Western tradition in parenting is to inculcate virtuous habits into children. Again, this goes way back. In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle wrote that a person becomes virtuous by doing virtuous acts. Behavior becomes identity. The historian Will Durant, commenting on Aristotle, observed, "We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
The Collapse of Parenting
Leonard Sax
This inability to experience being alone is what James called the religion of healthy-mindedness, which we recognize today, a century later, as the social well-adjustedness of Losers and the childlike obliviousness of the Clueless. We examined these in detail in previous parts.
The Gervais Principle
Venkatesh Rao
Interviewed Alain Bertaud at Stripe this morning, and he said something that I quite enjoyed (paraphrasing): "Part of the purpose of innovation is to avoid the Solzhenitsyn experience in *The Life of Denisovich*... where every day is predictable. That is the definition of inhumanity. As humans, we need change." I hadn't really thought about the idea of non-predictability as a positive good.
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