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Safe Spaces

Safe-space: a place to go where all is good, little responsibility is required, needs are met, and contrary things are avoided. 

These are the spaces where children grow up.  In the olden times, kids had a tree house.  They grew out of that by size.  Times have changed.  Many, especially those affluent, grow up in physical safe spaces, a kid-designated den where children live. They all contain normal kid toys, kid chairs, a cell phone, computer, and TV where only kid-venues are tuned.  In less affluent environs, kids live in personal safe-spaces, in their rooms with their cell and computer always on.  Contacts are through text and other social media.  Adults have scarcely any knowledge of their world and what transpires in it.  It is a world of filters, allowing in only what they desire. It is a world of ultimate, personal selfish behavior.  

When I grew up, there was one TV, and the family watched it together.  No longer. In this modern day, kid safe-spaces are everywhere. These days kids grow up mostly independent of social interaction with family.  Indeed, the only time adults are admitted is to inform about dinner and maybe bedtime. 

It is no wonder when leaving home for the first time, modern college students demand more safe-spaces.  It is what they grew up with.  They don’t like alternative thought.  Indeed, they’ve never encountered it, not knowing what to do if it arrives.  Heck, I want a safe-space, too.

There is a great line in the Mel Gibson movie, Payback, where a bad guy (William Devane) describes the philosophy of the bad guy’s boss (Kris Kristofferson), “When he doesn’t understand something, he gets rid of it.”  This describes the 2017 student body.


Fundamentally, we are seeing the destruction of the nuclear or any form of family within the family, hardly any member knowing it's happening. 
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