Something Wrong with the Generation

It is an age tested thing, every generation says that the one before it is too uptight and the one after it is too wild. I guess this begs the question if each progressive generation is getting wilder and it there an end? The case of the girl that sued her parents for tuition has gotten national attention and some of the reason is that there might be the widespread aversion many older adults feel toward juveniles and how “entitled” youth appear to be with all their communication services and newest gadgets, at least in the eyes of the old. Even science can get in on the juvenioa. Most recent have been the brain imaging findings that note our brains continue to develop through adolescence and into adulthood…and until we’re dead, really. Some research suggests that these differences are quite adaptive, but, nonetheless much of the narrative on this has been misused to portray teens as zombified hedonistic fools unable to restrain their least impulse. Teens and young adults remain one group of people that can be publicly disparaged with almost no condemnation. Some of the anti-youth rhetoric gets wrapped up in language about “protecting” our youth. But a vein of true loathing runs through much of the discussion. And until we’re honest about that it will continue to produce urban legends and junk science.