Joyless bores? No, today’s young are quiet revolutionaries | Dorian Lynskey
The younger generation have been caricatured as easily offended puritans. But they just want to expand freedom for all
The natural process of generational change was memorably summed up by Grampa Simpson in The Simpsons episode : “I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I’m with isn’t it, and what’s it seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you.” For at least the four decades between rock’n’roll and rave, it was understood that the latest “it” would be weird and scary because it was wilder, louder, sexier and more free, rendering yesterday’s rebel today’s square. The changing of the guard was uncomfortable for the
