Summary: Neotoddlerism is a growing trend of disruptive activism where individuals engage in outrageous protests to gain attention, often causing more harm than good. These activists, driven by impulsive behavior, focus on immediate gratification instead of rational solutions to their causes. To combat this phenomenon, society should ignore their antics and instead support constructive actions that inspire positive change.
People need struggles. If their supply of problems dwindles too low, they begin to embellish the problems they already have, or invent completely new ones. (View Highlight)
by believing the world is worse than it actually is, neotoddlers make the world worse. (View Highlight)
Every child begins life throwing tantrums. And every good parent learns to ignore them, because they know that acknowledging attention-seeking behaviors validates them, and prevents their kids from outgrowing them. If we wish to stop seeing good causes ruined by bad actors, we must stop rewarding immaturity. If we wish to usher in an age of post-toddlerism, we must stop making neotoddlers famous. (View Highlight)