
11/04/2023
Adulting is a word! And a useful one.
This story from WION titled “Why millennials will still be 'adulting' at 60” starts with, “You were once there. Full of innocent hope, ready to take on the world and not knowing how to run a washing machine. Your trips to the doctor were perhaps for routine check-ups and nothing scary. You spent money like there always was going to be more. And you sucked as hell in managing daily life outside of job and partying.
“Sounds familiar?”
The story is a fun read but a little unfair on millenials. I know of men in their seventies still reliving their university days and bantering saucy adolescent jokes. I’m sure women do that too. Why, entire nations can still be adolescent. I’m not mentioning names, but can you can guess? Hint: they refer to 5000-year-old civilisations as “young democracies” because they shed their colonial yokes less than 100 years ago!
Still, there is a problem. Or maybe there isn’t, depending on your point of view. Imagine the rakyat (the sheep, the flock, the uncouth masses — see the near-universal agreement in all major religions that they are somehow less than human?) all suddenly becoming adults and refusing to be exploited by the religious classes, corporates and politicians!
Total chaos, right?
When you have to start an article with something like 'readers of a certain age...' you know you've begun to NO LONGER be part of the foremost strike group of the young brigade. Advertisers still have you in mind yes, but corporate boardrooms have already begun strategising in order to lure peeps yo...