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The book Generación Idiota highlights the path traveled by many Western societies, sick of wokism, towards “adolescent society”. Besides being silly, can we talk about a lost generation?

Agustín Laje: The stupid generation is lost in its inability to look beyond its own narcissistic navel. This unbearable narcissism, often disguised as “woke politics” and a progressive stance, produces an absolute closed-mindedness that gets lost in itself. We see it, for example, in the most varied phenomena, such as the safe spaces of certain universities, the qualification of “hate speech” to cancel any idea that does not conform to progressive hegemony, the domination of the principle of perception of self as a measure of all possible reality, and the consequent end of truth as discourse that we project towards a reality that is (also) outside of us (this is what we could call the “post- truth").

This hatred of true diversity (diversity of thought, of beliefs, of ideas, of political positions) is definitely ruining the Foolish Generation, which is seduced into believing that diversity is progressing simply because one can dye one's hair green, feeling in the wrong body, or sleeping with someone of the same sex and celebrating it (as a great achievement) for an entire month every year.

In a society based on the self-centered adolescent girl or the child king, what is the place of old age and childhood?

Agustín Laje: Absolutely none. On the one hand, adolescentocentrism is based on a general rule that could be summed up by “the new is good, the old is bad”. Old age is presented to a society centered on adolescence as something essentially bad, in different but similar senses: old age is old-fashioned; old age brings with it a morality which, due to the acceleration of social change, is already outdated; old age is technologically outdated, in a society marked precisely by exponential technological change; old age, finally, in its proximity to death, recalls the finitude of life, in a society where death is equivalent to the absolute end.

With regard to childhood, many sociologists and political scientists have denounced in recent decades a kind of “infantilization process”. But the infant is too innocent and too pure to be confused with the adolescent idiot who dominates our cultural and political environment. The infant, as its very etymology indicates, has no voice. The infant is powerless: he cannot determine himself, nor even claim to do so. On the contrary, the adolescent-centered idiot claims full self-determination, but leaves it incomplete or mutilated, because the component of individual responsibility is still absent.

The whole current childhood sexual obsession (which is becoming more radical every day) is due to the particular hatred and contempt which the adolescent idiot feels for the idea of ​​a phase of life in which the individual of he human species lives under the domination of the authorities of his family.

Remember all those feminist theorists of the 70s, for example, who wanted to destroy all family authority over children.

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