5. Living in Barbieland? The importance of freedom of speech. Also in Switzerland.

We take a walk through some modern delusions that have been in vogue for the last several years, the desire, in fashion and getting a load of airplay of being in a "safe space", avoiding "being offensive", avoiding "triggers" and "triggering people". Where people pretend the world is or worse, has to be the way they want it to be. Instead of dealing with reality. Uncomfortable reality. The problem with all this silliness being that in order to progress, we need to be willing to be open, to feel uncomfortable, to be offensive, to ensure that issues are actually discussed and resolved, not just glossed over. Without real debate, there can be no progress. Some Universities are not teaching or allowing open debate any more, for fear of "offending" people. When we reach the point of forbidding open debate, for whatever reason, we move toward totalitarianism. Much of Swiss media is as guilty of this as any other countries.