Commentary Generation Z is starting to enter adulthood, and there are signs in this pandemic age that has taken up a fair portion of their adolescence that things aren’t going so well. Whatever course they take in that delicate transition out of youth, we may be sure that it will be quite different from what transpired with the previous generation. You see, something extraordinary happened to Millennials when they were young. Older generations passed through adolescence feeling a little insecure, rebellious perhaps, but knowing they didn’t have all the equipment a grownup needs, which only comes with experience and age, trial and lots of error. Even the fractious youth of the Sixties felt it, their don’t-trust-anyone-over-30 bravado barely hiding their dismay over the loss of trustworthy authorities. For all its fervent calls for radical change, there was an elegiac undercurrent to the Port Huron Statement. Millennials had a different experience. …
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