Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials Highlight

that they are. If we’re lucky and brave, the generation of American Millennials will be characterized by a choice. Either we continue the trends we’ve been given and enact the bad future, or we refuse it and cut the knot of trend lines that defines our collectivity. We become fascists or revolutionaries, one or the other. If we find ourselves without luck or bravery, I fear it will seem in retrospect like we never had a choice at all.