“It’s still a mystery to me why the snowflakes suddenly appeared.”
A good question and for myself the answer lies in so many of them going to College and the Universities to ‘earn’ a diploma that gives them a magical leg-up over everyone else. The indoctrination that goes on at those institutions is quite comparable to the reeducation camps of the communist countries in that ‘groupthink’ is much more powerful and corrosive that individual reflective thinking.
It’s got to be something along that line in order for the snowflake phenomenon to be so widespread. I wonder if the seeds aren’t being planted earlier when they are kids. Maybe a combination of school and messages they are getting from some of the entertainment directed at them.
To quote a recent article in THE NEW YORKER, many of these kids have mental health issues. They probably had them even before they entered college. Unfortunately this type will gravitate to left-wing ideology like moths to a flame.