According to one of my students at Yale, where I taught English in the last decade, a colleague of mine would tell his students that they belonged to a \u201cpost-emotional\u201d\u009d generation. No anger, no edge, no ego.<\/p>\n
What is this about? A rejection of culture-war strife? A principled desire to live more lightly on the planet? A matter of how they were raised \u201d\u201d everybody\u2019s special and everybody\u2019s point of view is valid and everybody\u2019s feelings should be taken care of?<\/p>\n
Perhaps a bit of each, but mainly, I think, something else….<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s ideal social form is not the commune or the movement or even the individual creator as such; it\u2019s the small business. Every artistic or moral aspiration \u201d\u201d music, food, good works, what have you \u201d\u201d is expressed in those terms.<\/p>\n