There is a fundamental problem in the way we send our children—and on ourselves—into the world. We practiced in the bathtub: a safe, manageable environment where the water is always still. Once we mastered the basics, we said, “Go ahead, head out into the wide world, into the ocean.” But snorkeling in the ocean is a completely different experience; in the ocean, you have to deal with the swell.

Ever since we collectively accepted that the earth is round and that we can no longer fall off its edge, we have lost the healthy boundaries of the bathtub’s rim. We have dived into the depths en masse, but we have become collectively confused by the sheer scale of change. We no longer understand the dynamics of the grand system.

Now, when a child is hit by a wave and feels water entering their snorkel, they panic. The child cries out: “Papa, look! The climate is changing, the sea level is rising, we are drowning!”

But the father, who still understands the laws of nature and the scale of the ocean, looks calmly at the horizon and says: “No, son. That is not a rising sea level. That is simply the swell.”

The core of our problem is that we have forgotten how to operate within the constraints of freedom. We confuse the temporary movement of the water—the emotion, the whim of the day, the incidental crisis—with a definitive change in the world. We have released a generation into the ocean without teaching them that a wave is part of the experience, that you can breathe through it, and that the world does not end with your first gulp of salt water.

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