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Young people are socialized to feel fragile and overawed by uncertainty (and as a result)… the defining feature of the current Western 21st century version of personhood is its vulnerability. Although society still upholds the ideal of sel-determination and autonomy, the values associated with them are increasingly overridden by a message that stresses the quality of human weakness. And if vulnerability is, indeed, the defining feature of the human condition, it follows that being fearful is the normal state…