Coddled

"The youth is an intellectual merely, a believer in ideas, who thinks that ideas can overcome the world. The mature man passes beyond intellectuality to wisdom; he believes in ideas, too, but life has taught him to be content to see them embodied, which is to see them under a sort of limitation. It has been mentioned that the spoiled-child psychology is encountered almost solely in those people who have abandoned nature and who have signalized this abandonment by taking flight from country to city. Turn where we will, we find that the countryman has a superior philosophic resignation to the order of things. He is less agitated by the cycle of birth and death; he frets less; he is more stable in time of crisis."

—Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences chapter 9.

Basically, experience should teach idealists to respect the constraints imposed by limited resources and human nature. The people who believe they can and should be insulated (by government) from everything-they-don't-like tend to live in cities, because in cities they are insulated to some extent. The problem comes when they try to impose their ideals on the real world, or when the real world invades their city.