The Infantilization of Society: Why Adults Act Like Children

  Infantilization means treating adults like children. Whoever does it creates a cycle of dependency in which the adult constantly needs to be told what to do and how. The infantilization of society consists of treating adults like children. It promotes increasingly childish attitudes and ways of life that aren’t associated with adulthood. Today, being young is no longer a biological transitional stage, but rather a life choice. This is something that’s well-established and brutally promoted by the media. In fact, today’s unmotivated adult is neither a sweatshop worker nor an exhausted housewife. They’re a new type of pseudo-adult. They’re…