Reply #69: Did anybody here ever read "Cold New World" by William Finnegan?

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It had two quotes in it I'll never forget:

One was by Walter Kirn: "First the members of the 60s generation hated their parents. Now they hate their kids."

The other was by the author: "What price are Americans willing to pay for social peace? This seems to me a central question. We jail the poor in their multitudes, abandon the dream of equality, cede more and more of our life to private interests, let lobbyists run government. Those who can afford to do so lock themselves inside gated communities and send their children to private schools. And then we wonder why the world at large has become harsher and more cynical, why our kids have become strange to us. What young people show us is simply the world we have made for them."