Warum niemand mehr aufwächst – und was schuld ist: Einige Überlegungen darüber, wie der moderne Kapitalismus das Erwachsenenalter verzögert und seine kulturellen Auswirkungen
https://mikecormack.substack.com/p/why-no-one-grows-up-anymoreand-whats?r=y3g8
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its two fold. Yes people are delaying their growth and clinging to childish interest more and more lately, however, past generations were more miserable and lacked any sort of interest outside of work until they retired when they went back to collecting toys from their childhood at 70 years old. But also there’s so little accessible hobbies for cost nowadays that clinging to low cost interest and childish hobbies is some people’s only escapism.
An article suggesting that with the increased concentration of wealth amongst the old, the young do not have the means to move to adulthood as easily any more. Mortgages, steady jobs etc remain out of reach. They therefore are stuck in a sort of pre-adult limbo. And the culture responds with extended over-parenting and a refusal to let the young experience risk or pain, so they don’t learn resilience. It ends with a call to give greater freedom and independence to young people so they can regain the status of adulthood and enjoy it.
Sure, modern capitalism is one part.
But the older generations have shown how many of them never really matured past high school, stopped learning a long time ago, and many in politics have failed to foster their replacements.
Capitalism, corporations in particular, have shown how to refuse responsibility and accountability and that has infected the rest of society.
I hope this pays homage to he who spoke of this centuries ago, describing alienation and commodification. It’s a shame everything sacred has been appropriated for greed and we’ve been conditioned to think it’s normal.
We need to redefine what „being an adult“ is. It’s kind of bullshit that someone is only considered an adult if they have children or own a home or only have certain hobbies that are expensive.
hhmf. I went into the article with the curious mind but this guy got into this right quick.
„(they) explain their emotional pain using the same vocabulary they use to diagnose fascism. „Heartbreak is “narcissistic abuse”. Confusion is “gaslighting”. Disappointment is “a trauma response”. In place of experience, they’ve been handed terminology, not tools for living.“. „
People are actually growing up more nowadays. It’s just these bizarre ideas of „growing up“ are not as common. Like having children or a house isn’t growing up. Developing emotional intelligence is. Older generations were actually less mature adults if you go by the true meaning of growing up. They have owned houses but they had atrocious (and I mean absolutely horrendous) emotional regulation skills and their marriages were god awful.