6 December

I do know people hate our culture being described as kidult. It’s not an insult, it’s only a description of how the culture operates. (It is also a disaster, but that’s different to it being an insult.) Twee sentimentalism is part of kidult/adolescent culture. Everything is a drama, turned up to 11. The culture of the feels, we don’t analyse or process feelings and solve the problems they represent, we just wallow in the feelings themselves, using them as platforms to perform our social identities. I chuckled seeing that the now universal wearing of black armbands by sportspeople, for example, because somebody’s granny’s cat died, has now led to bespoke armbands being produced for some teams, like the English cricketers. Added to the kit bag with the bats, gloves and pads.