From my PoV, both modern academia and their student demographic are blindly running around somewhere between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Hysteria" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Hysteria</a> . And the Big Evil Threat they're facing is mostly the yawning gulf between the oh-so-virtuous morality they feel compelled to publicly perform, and the oh-so-privileged and self-serving ways in which they actually live.<p>For some perspective, one might look to old Christian theologians, writing about the stark contrast between the humble teachings of Jesus and the jewel-encrusted lives of church leaders. Or to psychotherapists, writing about the behavioral issues of patients trying to live lives of blatant hypocrisy, without the "advantage" of sociopathic personalities.