has been unchained. He said that a near-death experence freed him to speak. As Winston Churchill said,
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Yes, a near-death experience has this marvelous effect of making you pay attention to what is actually real and true. Not doing so is part-and-parcel of living in a low-risk society.
Don’t get me wrong, there are huge benefits to a safe and comfortable life. It’s just that low risk also tends to mitigate against wise choices. It tends to breed a flabbiness of character. Like the HAMAS-toady protestors at Columbia and Harvard today–they have so little worry about it in terms of their own success and well-being that camping out to protest Jews seems like an OK thing, a lark.
Now, if they were married and had a kid, life would look very different. They would be anxious to finish their program with as little debt as possible and go get a decent job. THAT would be the important stuff, not Jew-hating!
See, the chronic infantilization of college students comes at a price! You can hear people whine, “But they’re only 27!”
Well guess what? By age 27 I had lived in another country for a couple years, spoke 2 foreign languages, had been married for a few years, had a Bachelor’s Degree, was just finishing my doctorate, and had a kid!
Don’t infantilize young people…