Millennials are a joke now, just not a very funny one. Their quirks and quiddities can be finely itemised, from their tastes in furniture to their favourite drugs. They can be chronologised, their rise and fall from new and interesting to stale and predictable roughly bracketed within the unresounding period of “the 2010s”. And, at a deeper level, we can begin to take the measure of their generational hamartia, the collective failing that clogged their promise – and which turned them into a punchline.
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