This article is light on content and the headline is misleading, but the issue discussed is real.
I'm convinced the explanation is biological. Same with interest in music. Of course I still like music, but occupying myself for an hour doing nothing but listening to music whilst staring at the album cover -- not any more.
I came of old age (I'm 39) right around the time music was also declining in our culture generally, so there's a bit of confounding there. Music is simply not as important for today's young men and women as it was for my generation. But there's still the old trope about dad's albums in the garage (mine are CDs), so I think the biology part is real too.
Kids don't like music that much either, nor do they form deep best-friendships. These are phenomena of adolescence, likely related to fertility.
The ease with which ordinary relationships take on deeper meaning for teens and twenty-somethings is also one reason it's hard for old-heads like myself to work at startups. We just don't mesh in the company-as-family zone as easily. Age discrimination is real, but it's also a bit of a two-way street.
I'm convinced the explanation is biological. Same with interest in music. Of course I still like music, but occupying myself for an hour doing nothing but listening to music whilst staring at the album cover -- not any more.
I came of old age (I'm 39) right around the time music was also declining in our culture generally, so there's a bit of confounding there. Music is simply not as important for today's young men and women as it was for my generation. But there's still the old trope about dad's albums in the garage (mine are CDs), so I think the biology part is real too.
Kids don't like music that much either, nor do they form deep best-friendships. These are phenomena of adolescence, likely related to fertility.
The ease with which ordinary relationships take on deeper meaning for teens and twenty-somethings is also one reason it's hard for old-heads like myself to work at startups. We just don't mesh in the company-as-family zone as easily. Age discrimination is real, but it's also a bit of a two-way street.