Why is the moral panic only ever about younger generations? It\u2019s time we heard what confuses or worries them about us<\/p>\n
Every generation looks at the next generation, and the one after that, with bafflement and concern. There\u2019s probably a name for this phenomenon. That\u2019s not to say we (the olds) aren\u2019t right to be more worried than ever about what they (the young) are up to. There\u2019s a lot for us to be worried about and confused about in equal measure. The TV drama Adolescence<\/a> got at this. Even having had its emojis and red pills \u2013 and emojis of red pills \u2013 patiently explained to me, I remain concerned and confused. Mainly confused. It\u2019s all decidedly mysterious \u2013 and not in a good, exciting way.<\/p>\n This intergenerational bewilderment seems only to work in one direction: down, rather than up. We flail around trying to make sense of what\u2019s going on with the young. If you are young, this is relevant to you, too, because you will soon be feeling like this about those coming up behind you. What I want to know is what, if anything, baffles the young about the old. Do they get together to express despair and confusion at the conduct of the olds? Is there stroking of chins, scratching and shaking of heads, as they ask: \u201cWhat\u2019s going on with elderly people today? I can hardly understand a thing they\u2019re saying. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to become of them, I\u2019m sure.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why is the moral panic only ever about younger generations? It\u2019s time we heard what confuses or worries them about us Every generation looks at the next generation, and the one after that, with bafflement and concern. There\u2019s probably a name for this phenomenon. That\u2019s not to say we (the olds) aren\u2019t right to be … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}