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Ethan's Top Five Reasons Why Today's Young Adults Are Freer than any Generation in American History (Part Two):
1. We are free from general social strife and the lockstep thinking of a mass movement. We have no sense of a shared mission, no notion that we are a generation chosen for some higher purpose--whether to save the world from tyranny or to usher it into a new era of peace, love, and understanding.
2. We are freer from ego-dampening hierarchies. We seldom find ourselves in situations where we feel it is necessary to hold our tongues or give reverence to those older or higher up the food chain. Our elders would call this disrespect, and sometimes they're right.
3. We have the freedom of time. Once you have children, you will know how true this is.
4. We are less bound by the naked pursuit of money. For some of us money is plentiful and for some of us it isn't, but for the most part lucre (filthy or otherwise) doesn't seem to be much of a factor in our life choices.
5. We are free to live our lives out of order. "The predictable sequence of education, stable employment, marriage and parenthood that marked earlier cohorts of young adults has given way to an increasing diversity of life paths," wrote two Penn State professors in their book A Generation at Risk. Women and men alike can delay marriage to pursue careers or delay careers to travel or delay travel to pursue education. Or vice versa and the other way around.
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More on the above topic can be found in chapter 1: "Confessions of a 'Never-Married.'"
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The complete list of Ethan's Top Five!
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Ethan's Top Five Reasons Why a Marriage Delayed Is a Marriage Improved
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Ethan's Top Five Reasons Why Today's Young Adults Are Freer than any Generation in American History (Part One)
Ethan's Top Five Reasons Why Today's Young Adults Are Freer than any Generation in American History (Part Two)
Ethan's Top Five Stupidest Lines from The Rules
Ethan's Top Five Stupidest Things He Had To Read While Researching His Book
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