Every unhappy generation is unhappy in its own way
The Kids Are All Right was a 2010 movie that attempted to reassure audiences that the teenage children of a lesbian couple are psychologically just fine. The movie is largely forgotten but the title has lingered, often as a springboard for observers who say that today’s kids are not, in fact, all right. The diagnoses of what ails the current generation of young folk are many and various. They are the products of infantilization, feminization, iPhones, cancel culture, digitalization, narcissism, social-justice intoxication and nihilism – among other maladies. They suffer from the breakdown of the nuclear family, the absence of fathers, the leftist capture of the schools, the dark temptations
