Marx’s zombies | The Spectator Australia

It is time we start listening to our kids. No, I haven’t lost my mind… Social discord, previously dismissed as teenage growing pains, has turned into civil unrest with many panicked that the US election will trigger open violence, regardless of who wins. 

The generation biting at our ankles have always been destructive. They were insufferable as children, plaguing social media as an emotionally unstable mob which we placated with safe spaces and trigger warnings. Their tantrums matured into cancel culture – dousing history with petrol to rid it of opposing thought. 

Do not ignore online rhetoric, even if it looks like trolling from a fringe group of radicalised students. What you are seeing is the equivalent of…