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Great lakes of electronic ink are spilt by [[digital prophet]]s, [[thought leader]]s and others of the gentler fabric who seem, these days, to be inheriting the earth — I guess the Bible said it would happen, so we shouldn’t be surprised — about the importance of [[safe space|spaces to vouchsafe psychological safety]]: we are, it seems, an uncommonly fragile lot; at the best of times, the toxicity of [[banter]] is an existential threat, and now we are at a low ebb: our constitutions enfeebled by [[Covid-19]], we are now so weak that [[best practice]] is to serve written warning before clearing your throat, for fear of mortally wounding nearby workmates, unused to human proximity.

[[Safe space]]s protect bad ideas. Good ideas don’t need safe spaces. But we can take these things a little far. Humans are [[antifragile]] things: we react well to ''little'' shocks: they toughen us up. insulating ourselves from them makes us yet more prone to them. It wasn’t {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} who first make this connection by the way, but {{author|Friedrich Nietzsche}}.