Extreme privilege and fame have never been the secret to emotional stability, but today's Hollywood descendants seem particularly incapable of facing reality. [emphasis, links added]
Example: Ramona Sarsgaard, the 18-year-old daughter of actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, was arrested this month for a criminal trespass during a pro-Palestine protest at the Butler Library at Columbia University.
This is not her first foray into activism. Sarsgaard has been a determined climate crusader since childhood.
At just 13, she gave a speech at the Amnesty International Ambassador’s Awards Ceremony in honor of Greta Thunberg.
Like Thunberg, Ramona revolves around the belief that climate disasters are not only inevitable, but imminent.
Sarsgaard marched during a youth climate strike in New York, one of many children who, according to her mother, “cannot get out of the horrible situation we are in.”
She is not alone: the entire generation has been nurtured to believe that they have been living in the apocalypse – and their mental health reflects that.
Just this week, Violet Affleck, 19, the daughter of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, published an article in Yale's Global Health Review, describing a fierce clash with his mother earlier this year.
“I spent January fire in Los Angeles and quarreled with my mother in a hotel room,” she wrote.
Violet explained: “As a lifelong member of Angelina and Gen Z climate state, my problem is not regardless Palisade will burn, but when. ”
She continues to refer to climate change as a “survival and accelerated” crisis.
It is obvious that she not only debated with her mother a hot topic—she is spreading a worldview that sees environmental collapse as one.
If this mentality sounds extreme, it is because it is being carefully cultivated.
Affleck's worldview was deliberately drilled into her by climate activists who prepared their crusades for an entire generation.
At institutions such as Yale University, climate anxiety is seen as a developmental necessity.
A few years ago, a consultation column in the Yale newsletter directed parents and caregivers to lead even the youngest children through therapeutic climate exercises, such as imagining their favorite animals affected by climate change and speaking from their perspective.
Just imagine starting a conversation with your four-year-old: “Think Peter Rabbit. Now imagine Peter has run out of food and death because he is too thirsty, has no grass to eat, and has no shadows that emits the sanctuary on the temperature.”
If you've tried it, you can't come up with a more traumatic course, and Yale's “experts” recommend it as a Therapeutic Template explaining the world to the end of the kids.
The consequences of this approach are measurable.
A global climate anxiety study in 2021 found that in 32 countries, 31 problems with climate change are associated with poor mental health.
In another survey of 10,000 young people in 10 countries, Three quarters say: “The future is frightening”, and more than half think that “human beings are doomed to fail.”
Yet the same activists, media and global institutions that amplify the climate are now fighting for the youth mental health crisis.
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