NYT: Emerging Adulthood
The phenomena is so obvious as to have become part of our popular culture. Observational studies have shown it to apply generally to current youth, and neuroscience gives perspective to the developmental approach of viewing the phenomena in terms of the individual - but where is the role of culture and the previous generations who are parents and grandparents to those in question?
How far can basic scientific methods serve this inquiry? This example seems to suggest common ground between the social sciences and philosophy that could be explored through notions of modeling.
In particular, what can we say about the effects of Consumerism on this generation? Or even about the state of Consumerism, itself? Or of Modernity and the looming insights of post-modern thinking?
Has the existentialist project progressed? Or have the failings of the 20th Century merely begun to manifest themselves in different 21st Century forms?
Is there a moment for us to seize? A potential inflection point to steer our species in a better direction?
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