Click on the title for an article that questions where today's angry and disillusioned youth are. I have to raise the question, where is any anger? Like "soma", we have swallowed the pill of complacency. Immersed for years in a mesmerizing haze of consumerism as we distanced ourselves from the leadership in Washington. As long as the credit cards kept underwriting our private needs and demand for public goods was met without much sacrifice, we were satisfied to let the aliens inside the beltway fight their intraplanetary squabbles. We're all guilty of burying our heads.
Young people don't demonize their parents now days, families today are a committee of equals. Hierarchy has been eliminated, everybody is each other's best buddy, the umbilical cord in all its electronic forms tethers the helicopter parent to the child. The child is awarded adult status from the beginning so never needs to rebel against restraints. The parent renews their identity through the child and you end up with a nation of pleasantly incestuous cliques, living in cookie-cutter McMansions, throughout identically commercialized towns. Where can the seeds of rebellion find any nourishment to grow in that climate?
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