I'm sorry, Younger Millennials, your revolution is over. The bums lost. We're going to put sex scenes back in books, and sometimes we're going to have the bad guys win. And we're going to make rave music danceable again.

THE BUMS WILL ALWAYS LOSE pic.twitter.com/sE1zFBWLNR

— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) March 20, 2023

I think Noah is right — the younger millennials and Gen Z are losing, slowly. People like sex and fun. That’s hard to fight against long term. What’s odd is how little the pandemic actually shifted. Culturally, it’s like it never happened. You don’t have to be a Covidian to think it would’ve changed more. But it did not. That bears some examination.