What's the Matter With Twentysomething Kids Today?
A Slate discussion on twentysomethings.
My own theory, which I’ll throw into the ring to kick things off, is that the underlying assumption of this article is backward: It seems to me that when you look past the surface textures, the governing impulse of my generation isn’t the wanderlust-of-the-soul that Henig takes as a premise. It’s an abiding, somewhat alarming cultural conservatism. Connect the dots of the predicament she describes, and the picture that emerges isn’t of freewheeling disorder and deliberately protracted adolescence; it’s a limbo state caused by fixed value systems and pervasive risk-aversion.
