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Identity politics? No, it's a simple statement of maturity. Youth today live longer at home with their parents, for example, and adulthood is postponed longer t
by bonch 16y ago
Identity politics? No, it's a simple statement of maturity. Youth today live longer at home with their parents, for example, and adulthood is postponed longer than previous generations. Many of them justify it with bitterness toward standard expectations, such as with your comment about a "parenthood hobby" and your derision of population numbers.
- Someone 16y agoThat is not limited to adulthood. Old age, too, is postponed longer than in previous generations. It would not surprise me if both correlated highly with life expectancy.
- prodigal_erik 16y ago"I will do X because my kind of people do X" is substituting stereotypes for reasoning. The very existence of standard expectations about how individual human beings conduct their lives is toxic, and I heartily approve of any resistance. Society can't possibly compensate you for sacrificing what you want in favor of what the majority is doing (whether or not they actually wanted to).