The Zoomer Question - American Affairs Journal
In a time in which generations struggle to understand each other, everyone, young and old, is nevertheless in agreement that something has happened to the young. Young people are now consistently more distressed than our elders, a fact whose daily confirmation through experience is the only thing keeping us from recognizing its utter historical perversity. Youth has been stripped of its natural tendencies to energy, autonomy, and subversion. In our turning away from life, the generation christened with the albatross of the alphabet’s final letter...
Summer 2023 / Volume VII, Number 2 REVIEW ESSAY Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age by Roberta Katz, Sarah Ogilvie, Jane Shaw, and Linda Woodhead University of Chicago Press, 2021, 280 pages Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America’s Future by Jean Twenge Atria, 2023, 560 pages I n the fall of 1954, the children of an industrial district of Glasgow , learning that a local vampire with iron teeth had “killed and eaten two wee boys” from their neighborhood, decided to mobilize hundreds of their best
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