Monday, January 15, 2018
A Fish Out of Water
Theodore Dalrymple, "Mary Neal Lives On," Taki's Magazine (January 13, 2018):
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I feel a profound cleavage between my own generation and that of young adults today: I do not understand, and do not really like, their tastes, their ambitions, their enjoyments, their sorrows, their opinions, or even their humor. But then I could say that of my own generation also: I never really belonged to it, or wanted to belong to it. I have always been a fish out of water, ever since I can remember.