Americans have become children — demanding, dependent and needy

nypost ^ | 09/05/2019 | Maureen Callahan

[ChicagoConservative27]

As a population, it’s exotic to the point of extinction, vanishing in plain sight: the American adult.

As a trend, this has been gestating for at least the past decade, from Judd Apatow’s glorified man-babies to Lena Dunham’s ostensibly grown “Girls” to the acceptance of “adulting” into the lexicon. But it truly, alarmingly calcified this summer.

Take prime-time TV. This summer was awash in game shows, major stars — including Justin Timberlake, Jimmy Kimmel, Rob Lowe, Ellen DeGeneres, Alec Baldwin, Tiffany Haddish, Elizabeth Banks, Duane “The Rock” Johnson, Melissa McCarthy (recent Oscar nominee) and Jamie Foxx (Oscar winner) — producing and/or emceeing.

“What it comes down to is that the movie business has changed,” Baldwin told Vulture in June. “They’re going to put up a lot of money, including big fees for ‘Iron Man’ and those kind of tentpole films. [But] everything else, the fees in the movie business have collapsed.”

[SMARTY]

“...demanding, dependent and needy...”

You can add to that: Greedy, ungrateful, shallow, superficial, selfish and WHOLLY uninformed!

I work with college students and am daily stunned at how very little they comprehend about just getting around in this world.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“In my experience, there is nobody less equipped — emotionally, in particular — to live in an adult world than a recent college graduate who grew up in an affluent suburb.”

I see that in our family, too. The eldest children are doing just fine - we have a Cardiac Nurse (married, child, homeowner, taxpayer) a Pharmacist (married, children, homeowner, taxpayer) and an LPN (married, children, also farms, taxpayer) but all of the younger siblings in each of these families?

Losers. Maybe it’s just that Family Dynamic of being the First Born?

Doesn’t seem to work in families with an ‘Only’ though, does it? ;)