If there’s one thing today’s older generations love, (besides posting Confederate flag minion memes to Facebook) it’s lazily pathologizing young people. This isn’t new, of course. Despite slight modifications, complaints about “the youth” have remained consistent since the ‘60s: Kids are narcissistic, entitled, overly sensitive, strangely consumed with technology and the opinions of others, and lacking in motivation.
It’s been said in the press before, but could it be that millenials and post-millennials are facing an identity crisis? It may very well be the case.
Jeannine English, president of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), was invited to Stony Brook University for a talk entitled, “Forget the Stereotypes: It’s a New World of Aging,” on September 30 at the Charles B. Wang Center. The…