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Never Coming of Age in America: Adulting and Alienation in a Decadent Society

Never Coming of Age in America: Adulting and Alienation in a Decadent Society

Update: 2025-08-11
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This week the boys are joined by eternal co-host Jess to discuss the novelty of adults being adults. We discuss the self-infantilization of millennials and older zoomers, which is a reflection of the crisis of meaning and deep rot at the heart of liberal modernity. We believe this is the result of a purely self-oriented conception of liberty and the ideological victory of capital's redefinition of the very essence of what it means to be human.

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Adulting in Middle Age
https://jacobin.com/2024/01/adulting-middle-age-millennials-boomers

Are millennials really an ‘infantilised generation’ - and if so, why?
https://theweek.com/107508/are-millennials-infantilised-generation

Arrested Development
https://newint.org/features/2018/01/01/arrested-development 

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Never Coming of Age in America: Adulting and Alienation in a Decadent Society

Never Coming of Age in America: Adulting and Alienation in a Decadent Society

Chris, Kevin, Jason, Ben, and Jess