Maybe we argue cross generations because of cultures that have clear divides between generations - what they do, what they are interested in, etc. We are so ada

Maybe we argue cross generations because of cultures that have clear divides between generations - what they do, what they are interested in, etc. We are so adamant about it that we shame each other for being "age inappropriate" when we step out of those molds. In turn, maybe there is relatively little bonding and friendship between the generations. Everyone who is 20 years or older than you is either your parent, your teacher, your boss, your counselor, your mailman, or he's a noone to you. You meet some of them and, unless you see them every day for some reason (parent, relative, boss, coworker), they have nothing more to say to you than "are you still in school, what are you studying?", and the like, and you have nothing interesting to say to them, either. (I'm talking about myself here, not anyone else in particular.)