24 July

Articles like this see this as an amusing analogy. But it isn’t, life is high school. The social world we all live on our way to adulthood is school, it gives us the framework we use in adult life. It explains yesterday’s protests, all protests really. Adults in our society think like adolescents. People well into their 50s and beyond still obsessed with their favourite bands, going to gigs, having ‘besties’, getting drunk etc. And when it comes to social emergencies, they think like teenagers - how this thing impacts me, how my feelings are affected etc.