Ouch! Don’t hit me with that stick!

Van der Leun looks at L.A. Times’ Joel Stein, and clobbers the whole Whatever Generation.

that this new voice that we hear throughout the land from so many of
the young betokens a weaker and less certain brand of citizen than we
have been used to in our history. Neither male nor female, neither gay
nor straight, neither…. well, not anything substantive really. A
generation finely tuned to irony and nothingness and tone deaf to duty
and soul.

What he said…or whatever..

Quasi-update (29 January): I’d forgotten about Taylor Mali. Read this.

Update (31 January): Ben Stein responds in a completely different direction.