The author has accurately summed up what I despise about modern P.C. (I guess youth?) culture and my main source of aggravation when trying to have a conversation about basically anything these days.
"A matter of how they were raised — everybody’s special and everybody’s point of view is valid and everybody’s feelings should be taken care of"
"Today’s polite, pleasant personality is, above all, a commercial personality. It is the salesman’s smile and hearty handshake"
"bland, inoffensive, smile-and-a-shoeshine personality — the stay-positive, other-directed, I’ll-be-whoever-you-want-me-to-be personality — that everybody has today"
"this is why, unlike those of previous youth cultures, the hipster ethos contains no element of rebellion, rejection or dissent"
"A matter of how they were raised — everybody’s special and everybody’s point of view is valid and everybody’s feelings should be taken care of"
"Today’s polite, pleasant personality is, above all, a commercial personality. It is the salesman’s smile and hearty handshake"
"bland, inoffensive, smile-and-a-shoeshine personality — the stay-positive, other-directed, I’ll-be-whoever-you-want-me-to-be personality — that everybody has today"
"this is why, unlike those of previous youth cultures, the hipster ethos contains no element of rebellion, rejection or dissent"