Tag: people

Nobody talks about why middle class habits — the overscheduled weekends, the obsessive home improvement, the constant low-grade planning for a future that never quite arrives — aren’t ambition, they’re the anxiety of people who grew up close enough to precarity to remember it, and have been quietly running from that memory ever since
The hardest thing to explain to younger generations about growing up in the 1960s and 1970s isn’t the lack of technology — it’s the specific quality of unsupervised time, the slow afternoons, the boredom that produced things, the freedom that came with no adult tracking your location — and most of those conditions have been correctly retired, but the people they produced are unlikely to be replicated
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