This is why we're all totally screwed

I personally think this is more of a cycle based on individuals and less of an inevitable decline in society

I think there are people who refuse to grow up in every generation. Those people eventually have kids and in my experience most kids in that situation tend to take on the adult role in the relationship. Kids who are forced into the adult role early tend to be responsible adults when they reach the appropriate age so you get responsible adults from childish parents.

I think there are generations where the majority of people are irresponsible but I think you see that more in macro examples and less in individual anecdotes (The baby boomer generation allowing their governments to spend far and away more than they took in with tax revenue for example)

She didn't really "school the author" in that he points out her humor falls into the "funny because it's true" category and it's the fact that she and her readers think it's true that really disturbs him.

The people with the cleanest desks are not always the most productive or efficient workers.

The author seems to have very strong opinions about what everyone else should be doing (see the second comment):

http://www.unlimitedmagazine.com/2010/06/the-antiquated-guid...

If all that stuff makes you happy, great. I like some of it myself (cooking, pushups, books). But "cleaning all the things" and "wear a tie" don't make everyone happy, and there is no reason Allie should force herself to do it even if Unlimited Magazine thinks it's what every adult should do.

We're all screwed because we write more about the difficulties in attaining adulthood nowadays, which means we must be more infantile than the baby boomers.

We're all screwed because people donate more to cancer research these days, which means we must have more cancer than the baby boomers.

We're all screwed because we write more about software design now, which means we must have worse computer software than the baby boomers.

etc, etc.