We Aren't Raising Adults. We Are Breeding Excellent Sheep
&gt; The 1960s broke authority, and it has never been repaired. It discredited adulthood, and adulthood has never recovered. The attributes of adulthood—responsibility, maturity, self-sacrifice, self-control—are no longer valued, and frequently no longer modeled. So children are stuck: they want to be adults, but they don’t know how. They want to be adults, but it’s easier to remain children. Like children, they can only play at being adults.<p>Is this true? Did adult-aged humans feel &quot;grown up&quot; pre-1960s?<p>Or, is a fundamental lack of certainty more intrinsic to our nature?