The Problem With Kids Today

Sealed off from reality, the youth are terrified of themselves and of everything else.

Bathers at Asnières — Georges Seurat (1884)

One advantage of skulking around your early thirties is one can freely bemoan the state of the youth today.

By ‘youth,’ I mean anyone younger than me, and anyone under forty-five whose puritan leanings I loathe.

I’m enjoying this additional string to my bow of eternal curmudgeon. Indeed, I scour my local newspape…