Bringing a kid into our declining world is terrifying
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Bringing a kid into our declining world is terrifying
because parents are a generation older, much of what shaped them stemmed from a world with priorities, values, anxieties and hopes that seem strange – even reprehensible – to their children, but that were, and still are, urgent and real for them.
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The Age of Abandonment
We simply don’t believe anyone will stay
Freya India
Oct 09, 2024
Screenshots, TikTok: @yngpolly, @manelique
I’ve written a lot about my generation and fear. Our fear of love, and fear of life. But I’ve been getting the sense lately that there’s some ultimate fear underlying all this, running through everything. And I’m becoming... See more
We simply don’t believe anyone will stay
Freya India
Oct 09, 2024
Screenshots, TikTok: @yngpolly, @manelique
I’ve written a lot about my generation and fear. Our fear of love, and fear of life. But I’ve been getting the sense lately that there’s some ultimate fear underlying all this, running through everything. And I’m becoming... See more
Freya India • The Age of Abandonment
As Barbara Ehrenreich and Katherine Newman have convincinglyargued, many boomers also had anxiety about falling out of the middle class in their 30s and 40s. But those years of their lives were not subject to constant optimization. The kernels of productivity culture had been sewn, but they hadn’t yet been normalized. Some upper middle-class white ... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • The Friendship Dip
