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What Happens When a Whole Generation Never Grows Up? - WSJ

We’re not the first cohort to experience a crisis. To experience the passing of time. And by passing of time, I mean the dawning realisation that time is finite, and we might have already wasted a lot. We used to have time to burn. But it was a late blooming into misery.

While Gen Xers and Baby Boomers before us had these realisations by 25, for Mil... See more

Bride Jabour • ‘A late blooming into misery’: why Millennials are unhappy

Talk to most 30-50 year olds these days and they tell you two things: 1. The next generation is weak (phone addiction, no sex, no work ethic, etc) 2. Humanity is doomed (climate change, societal upheaval, nuclear war, etc) Here’s 20 quotes presented without com... See more

Andrew Wilkinson x.com

jim aldridge • jim aldridge on Substack

Est-ce déjà le début du vieillissement ? de la résignation ? Je ne connais plus ces révoltes, cette impatience, ces avidités qui ont marqué ma jeunesse.

Charles Juliet • Ténèbres en terre froide. Journal I (1957-1964) (French Edition)

The Paradox of Fall

Parker J. Palmer fetzer.org

When he did express his concerns, they were dismissed as his “male midlife crisis.” Essentially, though, women’s liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search—for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women’s liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an id

Warren Farrell • The Myth of Male Power

The midlife-crisis phenomenon has taken on almost mythic proportions in the American psyche over the past century. The term was first coined by the Canadian psychoanalyst Elliott Jaques, who noticed a pattern in the lives of “great men” in history: Many of them lost productivity—and even died—in their mid-to-late-30s, which was midlife in past cent