If wisdom is good judgement, and if good judgement comes from bad judgement–which I personally believe to be the case, with the wisest people often being those who have done the fullest inventory of how not to do things and why–then what I will call here the Cancel Anti-Culture virtually ensures no one subjected to its irrational and constantly shifting mandates can POSSIBLY become wise.
All of us, to grow as human beings, need to make mistakes. We need to take risks. We need to learn to manage risks. We need to get negative feedback when we go too far in any direction.
And people who are taught from the earliest age to live in terror of others judgment–can I say the Stepford Children?–cannot possibly bear the idea of individual risk. They may well be willing to fly suicide planes into people and buildings, but only because they were told to do so. That is less frightening to them than the risk of watching the wrong TV show, or admiring the wrong celebrity a moment too long.
Cancel Anti-Culture can ONLY breed imbeciles. It can only breed people who lack judgement because they have never taken individual risks in their lives.
Everything happy, everything good, everything genuinely beautiful comes from empowered individuals, sometimes in a dance with one another, sometimes with their own imagination and muses.
Monster children breed darkness and horror, and Cancel Anti-Culture breeds monster children. Again, I will reference Tamina’s Island, as envisioned by Milan Kundera, which I think is as close to a perfect metaphor as I have seen. Evils are abetted, not extinguished, but it takes people willing to see and think on their own to see that.