The whiny kids tended to grow up conservative, and turned into rigid young adults who hewed closely to traditional gender roles and were uncomfortable with ambiguity. The confident kids turned out liberal and were still hanging loose, turning into bright, non-conforming adults with wide interests. The girls were still outgoing, but the young men tended to turn a little introspective.
I suspect that these results will bring down a hail of abuse and harrassment from the right. However, more interesting to me is the question of whether this feels so insightful to me for purely self-congratulatory reasons or for real reasons based in my perception of human nature. I think that there's room to believe that "tradition and authority" provide reassurance to the insecure, but also to all of us to varying degrees, and perhaps it can be humanizing to realize that adult world-views are born out of the interaction of our personalities with the world, rather than via simple programming by Good or Evil forces...(via Follow Me Here)
(p.s.) Blogger is gagging today, so posting may or may not happen. (If you can read this, I'm already way ahead of the game compared to most of the day!)
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