[Extreme Education] The Era of Giant Infants

Author: JEFFI CHAO HUI WU

Time: Wednesday, July 30, 2025, 7:38 PM

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[Extreme Education] The Era of Giant Infants

When elders and the tech circle raise instead of human growth!

Can humanity still grow up? This is the most absurd yet serious question of the 21st century. When a 90-year-old elder prepares three meals a day, does laundry, cleans, washes feet, and trims nails for their 60-year-old son, and even gently lulls him to sleep when he is sick—this is no longer filial piety, but a form of social decay. Even more frightening is that this situation is no longer derived from brainless dramas; instead, it is packaged in theory as "the happiness of filial children" and "the emotional pillar of long-lived families," completely obscuring the collapse of civilization behind it. Humanity is regressing in an invisible way, and a tragic performance of technological convenience replacing the responsibilities of growth is accelerating.

I have personally witnessed a case that left me speechless: an elderly lady in her nearly seventies posted in a community group about her son, who is in his twenties, leaving a 20-kilogram object at the door and waiting silently for his mother to come home and move it, saying, "Anyway, you'll move it when you get back." This is no longer just an isolated case, but a generational syndrome of civilization. "That person is not dependent on his mother, but on a societal maternal substitute system." He is not truly lazy; rather, he has been conditioned from a young age to avoid handling difficulties, never confronting risks, and lacking independent judgment. A giant baby fed by technology can no longer recognize a person's basic boundaries. This is not just a family issue; it is a pathology of the species.

From physiological degeneration to social structure, we are creating several "giant babies." The first generation of giant babies is overly protected by spoiled parents, who never cook, do laundry, or clean, and arrange everything for them, spending their days indulging in entertainment and the pleasure of consumption. The second generation is the "tech-savvy giant baby" of the new era: from birth to school, they never engage in deep communication with others, lack conflict resolution skills, do not know how to obtain information through their bodies, and only rely on screens for judgment, follow commands, order takeout, use navigation, and flirt with apps. Even if they read a lot, they lack independent thinking abilities, having bones without roots and hearts without souls. Giant babies are not intellectually deficient; rather, they are products of "detachment from primitive reality survival training," like human models cultivated in a laboratory, lacking the social self-growth function.

Technology is not the original sin, but it is being used in a systematically "comprehensive caregiving" manner. In the mid to late 20th century, GPS replaced our sense of direction, social platforms replaced face-to-face emotional connections, search engines extinguished our desire for exploration, online shopping replaced going out, and AI chatbots became therapists, eliminating the need for companionable friends and real hugs. What technology brings is not "more freedom," but "systemic dependence." At the same time, it has caused individuals to lose necessary response mechanisms, the cost of choices, and the ability to heal. We are becoming a generation after generation of greenhouse people who have lost functional living skills, elevated by service systems to become civilized meat blocks, losing the mechanisms for growth.

This is not a warning to the world, but a trend that has been systematically hidden. Over the past fifty years, the average physical fitness indicators of global adolescents have continued to decline. Reports from the World Health Organization indicate that since the 21st century, the average grip strength of males under 30 has decreased by 12 kilograms, and muscle endurance and cardiovascular function have generally experienced a "cliff-like collapse"; a report from the global medical community in 2025 pointed out that 80% of those born after 2000 are unable to complete memory drawing and map association with their residential communities, with the first reaction to getting lost being "giving up consciousness" rather than "finding a way to escape"; family structures are largely characterized by "regressive and inverted" disintegration: many elderly individuals in their seventies and eighties are still taking care of their children in their fifties or even sixties, and after getting married and having children, these children still live at home, being raised by their aging parents, and all of this is referred to as "the happiness of three generations living together."

We no longer live by "growth," but rather by "being cared for." Giant infants are not immature in behavior, but have completely lost the "goal of independent survival" and the "ability to face the pain of reality." They do not think about taking responsibility, using their brains, adapting, or being accountable. Everything is left to service systems, platform decisions, and parental buffering. It is not incompetence, but rather a result of being raised without ever training in "primitive survival paths." They cannot even use their ears to judge direction when walking at night, the geographically challenged cannot use the stars to find their way, and those who are physically weak cannot endure the heat, yet still need to constantly wear cooling industrial equipment. The true definition of civilization is "human development tools," but today these tools "backfire on humanity."

The emergence of the "giant baby" phenomenon did not begin in 2020, but is the result of a slow catalysis. Parents shout for "independence" while feeding, arranging, interfering, and handling everything around the clock, leaving children with no real experience of "exploring failure." Once the internet goes down, power is lost, orders cannot be placed, or AI customer service makes mistakes, they fall into panic, complaints, shouting, and emotional outbursts, struggling to cope with the setback of a single step, even asking their friends how to operate the elevator. Friends have become outsourced responsibilities rather than deep "everlasting fallback relationships"; we have not exchanged genuine human connections, but merely traded a layer of "interactive traffic commodities" filtered through the platform-mediated social mechanism.

This is today, where people are almost cultivated without battlefield experience. People are keen to discuss "whether AI has emotions," but forget to ask if humans "still have instincts." A post-00s programmer once told me, "I'm afraid of power outages at night because I can't sleep without air conditioning." — This is not being delicate; it's that the body has lost its ability to regulate. Another 26-year-old said, "My dad never let me lift heavy things." — He is not happy; he has never learned what it means to "carry weight forward." These people will only collapse on the ground when faced with unemployment, failure, family breakdown, or unexpected accidents, unable to withstand pressure.

Looking back at the scene where the 70-year-old man snatched a 20-kilogram object from his 24-year-old nephew and handed it to his husband, it seems like a small ukiyo-e of this entire human regression drama: young people do not work, middle-aged people are immature, and the elderly become adults, while technology quietly watches from the sidelines, waiting for humanity to completely collapse so it can take over everything. This is not science fiction, this is not the future, this is now. This is reality; not the future, this is the present.

Can you still carry 20 kilograms up three flights of stairs? Can you walk to your parents' house without using navigation? Can you spend a day without your phone, without going on social networks, and without AI recommendations, while freely planning your own schedule? If not, then you are the physical sample of this article. You are not reading an article; you are looking in a mirror.

When the 90-year-old man trembles as he wipes the bottom and ties the shoelaces of the 60-year-old healthy "baby," the backend machine system is quietly upgrading—welcome to the era of the giant baby, welcome to the Human Rearing Protocol V2.0.

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