This is an obituary for the generation gap. It is a story about 40-year-old men and women who look, talk, act, and dress like people who are 22 years old. – New York magazine
I just went to a convention with the people described in this article. Heck. I am one of those people (up to a terminally uncool point, where I fall behind the bell-shaped curve). I am also perturbed by what Ian McDonald refers to as parasitic attention seekers. We are living in an attention economy. Nothing matters more (or less) to people than your attention.
It’s just that we’ve realised that the “adult world” is morally bankrupt, and we’re waiting for all the evil old bastards who defend it to die (and hoping they don’t take the planet with them).
The problem with that view is that we’re not so far from being the evil old bastards ourselves.