“Can entire societies succumb to infantilization? Frankfurt School scholars such as Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm and other critical theorists suggest that – like individuals – a society can also suffer from arrested development. In their view, adults’ failure to reach emotional, social or cognitive maturity is not due to individual shortcomings.”
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The infantilization of Western culture
Our social institutions and politics suffer from a collective arrested development – and our relationship to technology has only exacerbated this trend.