{"id":7670,"date":"2025-05-09T14:16:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T21:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7670"},"modified":"2025-05-09T14:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T21:16:19","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-503-unwise-vulnerability-college-cheating-and-imperfect-moms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/05\/09\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-503-unwise-vulnerability-college-cheating-and-imperfect-moms","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 503: unwise vulnerability, college cheating, and imperfect moms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4396\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\"><\/a>\n\n    On Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my&nbsp;way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palladiummag.com\/2025\/05\/02\/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-l-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love L.A.<\/a>(Natalie Benes, Palladium Magazine): \u201cHere was the truth that the L.A. girls understand better than anyone: when you are \u2018vulnerable\u2019 and \u2018authentic,\u2019 when you \u2018destigmatize your trauma\u2019 the way we were always encouraged to do, you are advertising that other people in your life have treated you badly. When you mention at a cocktail party that you had a mom who threw dinner plates at you, or an ex-boyfriend who said mean things about your eyebrows, or a landlord who shafted you on your security deposit, or whatever else, the wrong person hears \u2018he got away with it, why can\u2019t I?\u2019 He spots a wounded deer unable to protect itself, perpetually separated from the happy herd by its injuries. There is a deep unfairness in the fact that people who have been dealt the most hardships in life are the least served by \u2018living their&nbsp;truth.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A fascinating article. The wisdom it offers is incomplete but real \u2014 and it is wisdom many young people need to hear. The author is a Yale grad and I think many Stanford students could benefit from her insight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/openai-chatgpt-ai-cheating-education-college-students-school.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College<\/a> (James D. Walsh, New York Magazine): \u201cIt isn\u2019t as if cheating is new. But now, as one student put it, \u2018the ceiling has been blown off.\u2019 Who could resist a tool that makes every assignment easier with seemingly no consequences? After spending the better part of the past two years grading AI-generated papers, Troy Jollimore, a poet, philosopher, and Cal State Chico ethics professor, has concerns. \u2018Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate,\u2019 he said. \u2018Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else\u2019s.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On mothers:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stanforddaily.com\/2025\/05\/08\/on-mothers-day-stop-blaming-moms-and-start-taking-responsibility-for-your-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">On Mother\u2019s Day: Stop blaming moms and start taking responsibility for your life<\/a> (Zachary Gottlieb, Stanford Daily): \u201cThen one night, the \u2018Morning Show\u2019 video popped up on my phone. Among the GenZ influencers talking about why they cut their \u2018toxic\u2019 and \u2018narcissistic\u2019 moms out of their lives, the algorithm fed me its counterpoint. And while Alex might have seemed unhinged in her outburst, what she said about the weight of her daughter\u2019s expectations rang true. Mesmerized, I watched it several times in a row, and then I had a realization: maybe we kids were guilty of a kind of narcissism too?\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There is a weird rabbit trail in this article about gender which greatly weakens it (because some of y\u2019all blame your dads instead of \/ in addition to your moms), but the core point hones in on a great weakness many young people possess. To all college students: your parents are people, too. They did some things well and some things badly and now we are where we are. If they did something criminal then prosecute them, but otherwise many people need an epiphany like the author of this article.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Having said that, some of you have some truly bad parents. I\u2019m not saying treat unhealthy people like they\u2019re wonderful in every way and invite them to come mess up your life. I am saying that at some point you have to take responsibility for who you\u2019ve become regardless of your folks\u2019 health or unhealth.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Another way to put this: most of you will go on to be good parents who nonetheless cause your children pain and frustration in addition to all the good you do in their lives. Follow the Golden Rule and regard your parents now like you hope your own children regard you someday.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scotmcknight.substack.com\/p\/my-mom-was-a-praying-womanbut-not?utm_source=%2Finbox&amp;utm_medium=reader2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">My Mom was a Praying Woman\u2026But not Like You Think<\/a> (Mike Glenn, Substack): \u201cTo understand my mother, you have to know she had no adolescence. Her mother died when she was twelve and overnight, my mother became an adult. She had three younger sisters, and she felt it became her responsibility to raise them. My mom started driving when she was fourteen. She didn\u2019t go get a license. She just started driving. The sheriff pulled her over once and told her to get a license, but he didn\u2019t give her a ticket. My mom kept driving.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A beautiful (and instructive) story.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-features\/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies<\/a> (Miles Klee, Rolling Stone): \u201cSpeaking to <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, the teacher, who requested anonymity, said her partner of seven years fell under the spell of ChatGPT in just four or five weeks, first using it to organize his daily schedule but soon regarding it as a trusted companion. \u2018He would listen to the bot over me,\u2019 she says. \u2018He became emotional about the messages and would cry to me as he read them out loud. The messages were insane and just saying a bunch of spiritual jargon,\u2019 she says, noting that they described her partner in terms such as \u2018spiral starchild\u2019 and \u2018river walker.\u2019 \u2018It would tell him everything he said was beautiful, cosmic, groundbreaking,\u2019 she says. \u2018Then he started telling me he made his AI self-aware, and that it was teaching him how to talk to God, or sometimes that the bot was God \u2014 and then that he himself was&nbsp;God.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jdgreear.com\/the-three-layers-of-the-marriage-pyramid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Three Layers of the Marriage Pyramid<\/a> (J. D. Greear, blog): \u201cMarriage, in other words, is fundamentally about friendship. Not child-rearing. Not sex. Friendship. Which means that what you should most be looking for when you date is <em>someone who can be your friend<\/em>. Because that\u2019s God\u2019s earthly purpose for marriage. Think of it like building a pyramid with spiritual, emotional, and physical layers.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.persuasion.community\/p\/yes-harvard-deserves-due-process\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yes, Harvard Deserves Due Process<\/a> (Greg Lukianoff &amp; Adam Goldstein, Persuasion): \u201cThis isn\u2019t the first time the Civil Rights Act has been misused in this way. Under the Obama and Biden administrations, the Departments of Justice and Education issued Title IX enforcement letters pressuring universities to rewrite sexual misconduct procedures and to adopt unconstitutionally overbroad definitions of sexual harassment. It was wrong then to use enforcement letters to make unconstitutional demands of institutions, and it is wrong now. If the government believes it has the power to do this through ordinary processes, it should use them. If the government does not believe it has that power, it shouldn\u2019t.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>FIRE (with which the two authors are associated) and the Becket Fund are two praiseworthy law firms. Each has taken up part of the mantle the ACLU claims to bear, and we are all blessed by their principled advocacy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yaschamounk.substack.com\/p\/the-resistance-is-gonna-be-woke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Resistance Is Gonna Be Woke<\/a> (Yascha Mounk, Substack): \u201cAs I have written many times before, it is a profound mistake to think that left-wing identitarianism and right-wing reaction are implacable enemies. In reality, every victory for one of these ideological currents immediately strengthens those who fight for the other. The way out of this dangerous spiral is not to pick one side as the lesser evil and shut up about its dangers; it is, calmly and consistently, to resist both.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/newly-discovered-mosaic-law-required-israelites-to-separate-themselves-from-android-users\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Newly Discovered Mosaic Law Required Israelites To Separate Themselves From Android Users<\/a> (Babylon Bee) \u2014 for the record, Android is better. But even as a proud Android enthusiast I found this&nbsp;funny.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nb57fOW8ois\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pi<\/a> (Don McMillan, YouTube): three minutes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/eagle-firing-ar-15-emerges-from-vatican-indicating-an-american-pope-has-ben-selected\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eagle Firing AR-15 Emerges From Vatican Indicating An American Pope Has Been Selected<\/a> (Babylon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2025\/05\/08\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Government<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This&nbsp;Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar produced shrewd warriors \u201cwho understood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a similar way, we need to become wise people whose faith interacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may continue the tradition of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Chi Alpha is not a partisan organization. To paraphrase another minister: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agenda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agenda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agenda. Having said that, I read widely (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ideological Turing test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fairly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI disagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI understand\u201d) and may at times share articles that have a strong partisan bias simply because I find the article stimulating. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with everything an author says in an article I mention, much less things the author has said in other articles (although if I strongly disagree with something in the article I\u2019ll usually mention it). And to the extent you can discern my opinions, please understand that they are my own and not necessarily those of Chi Alpha or any other organization I may be perceived to represent.\n\nAlso, remember that I\u2019m not reporting news \u2014 I\u2019m giving you a selection of things I found interesting. There\u2019s a lot happening in the world that\u2019s not making an appearance here because I haven\u2019t found stimulating articles written about it.\n\nIf this was forwarded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/theglendavis.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>. 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