Also, when the fuck were kids EVER polite and obedient? You can’t argue that kids should be polite AND bullied. Bullies, for those keeping score, aren’t beacons of good behavior. Boomers literally don’t know what they want. A culture that’s both considerate AND callous, reasonable AND insane.
They want a world wherein they are still the future, but in the middle, not the youngest or the oldest, sneering in both directions, rather than mouldering skeletons sinking into bogs and grasping at something, anything, to feel in control of a world that is instead fighting to leave them behind.
Absolutely! It’s kind of astonishing that they’re a generation that bemoans millennials and Gen Z for being too sensitive and self-centered and those are LITERALLY the traits that they themselves embody.
They are literally and existentially dying and afraid, and if they have to drag us all into the bog in order to hold on to the world as it slips away from them, they will or die trying. It's defensiveness, deflection, and denial. They can't face that they became their parents and then grew older.
The highlighted section is actually the least offensive part of this essay. Because what happened to his friend, if true, does sound a tad unfair. Meanwhile, he’s literally arguing elsewhere in the piece that the problem today is that parents can’t be absolute monsters to their kids anymore.
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