A SWAT team of adolescent psychiatrists to help your kid through his mental health crisis

Author, entrepreneur and public speaker Scott Galloway is a man of the left, but he’s not doctrinaire. He has a lot of contrarian things to say. To me, the most interesting comments from this stream-of-consciousness clip of Galloway at the University of Virginia was the following:

The entire orientation for the parents here is to convince you that your kid is already in the midst of a mental health crisis, but not to worry. If he so much as blinks funny, there is going to be a SWAT team of adolescent psychiatrists descending from a helicopter to help him. And there’s about eight hundred 800 numbers to help your kid through the crisis.

This is going to sound unfeeling but universities have figured out a way to become very safe places, and I worry that it’s gone too far. … I recognize there’s a balance, but this seems over the top. No parent should be allowed to come to Orientation. [Someone] asked three times how many allergists they had on staff here.