marginalium noun

the notes one makes in the margins.

A short note on

skimming haidt’s the coddling of the american mind and came across his passage on marcuse

October 28, 2026

source: www.thecoddling.com

by Dorian Minors

I did brain science at Cambridge. Now I'm a behaviour science professor. Read my shit.

Skimming Haidt’s The Coddling of the American Mind and came across his passage on Marcuse:

Liberating tolerance, Marcuse explained, “would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.”

Was thinking about how it was different from the paradox of tolerance. I suppose Haidt’s point is that the former can sound like the latter. But then Haidt seems to be spiralling into the very anxiety that he writes about so avidly and controversially in The Anxious Generation, so I don’t know how much we should trust that.

If you don’t do the thinking, the thinking will be done for you.

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