Scott Alexander

If my son inherits those genes in a male body and moves to Chicago or something, will he become the next Koston Alamariu?

What about our daughter?

What percent of women from intellectually inclined, non-practicing Jewish families avoid becoming insane woke people?

20%?

10%?

Sure, we'll try to inculcate her into our reasonable liberal culture.

But what do you think all those woke teenagers are rebelling against?

Can a 2011 book say anything about these dangers?

Kaplan still blogs.

Some of his more recent output addresses them more directly.

But maybe his greater contribution is the way SRTHMK teaches us to challenge our fears.

Are the dangers of today really worse than those of yesterday?

Is some real but small chance of harm from insufficient caution really worse than the certainty of making ourselves and our kids miserable through excessive discipline?

Can we really win the fight against the spirit of the age and our children's genetic proclivities?

When I try to apply SRTHMK's lessons, I can't deny that I'm being exactly the kind of hypocrite who says that my generation was okay, but the next generation is destroying society.

I chafed against all of my parents' stupid computer use restrictions as a teenager.

Why couldn't they understand that I was only playing classy games like Civilization and hanging out on decent sites like LiveJournal?

Now it's 20 years later and... Actually, I guess I became an anti-woke influencer.

Surely every good liberal mother's worst nightmare.

And I did sort of join a doomsday cult.