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An excellent article by Matt persivale Corriere della Sera on line that captures the deep crisis of the 40s.

I could not write it better.

Then pass it as is, also highlighting the link to get there.

U.S., forty in error - the stories of those struggling to CONQUER THE MATURITY

Generation X in mid-life crisis

We used the refusal to grow as symbol of diversity by the 'old'. Now pull the (painful) budget

Because twenty years the prospect of not become what you dream is out your radar. Thirty years is a reasonable source of concern. Forty is the certainty of not having made it: they have switched from being a "too young" to that of "too old", because even in a country like Italy sixty measure you can think of four decades of being still considered a part of some compliments-aunt well-educated young man. The New York Times recently wrote of the "early midlife crisis" of Generation X (those born of, roughly, from 1964 to 1979, immortalized in the book by Douglas Coupland published in Italy by Mondadori), citing as an example Greenberg The film just released in the U.S. with Ben Stiller in the role of a forty failed musician forced to live in his brother's house: a textbook example of the eternal adolescent who comes to terms with the death of hope.

According to The New York Times, is the story of a contradiction: "How can you have a midlife crisis, the generation that has chosen to mark the cultural refusal to grow up? ". A generation whose motto is "we have done everything possible," and often made at forty below expectations (their own and others'). Who has not abandoned the youth-out of laziness or because it was psychologically guaranteed not to become like the "old" - made the forty is to wear the clothes of maturity so uncertain. A book released in the U.S., Imperial Bedrooms Bret Easton Ellis, is the sequel, 25 years later, Less than Zero (Einaudi) cornerstone of generation X. After all this time, Ellis's characters have not changed at all, constrained by its limitations: and one of them ends well quartered.

least another novel generationally important Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel (published by Rizzoli in 2006) said the same things masked with an apology on the "pill that heals the uncertainty." That exists only in the imagination of the author, unfortunately. The chorus of "Loser" by Beck ("I'm a loser, baby, because I did not shoot down?") Makes you laugh less than fifteen years ago, and if his latest CD - such as the Beastie Boys-you did not like the non- 'you said to no one, lying out of loyalty to your taste for a long time ago. The films of Wes Anderson, with those boiled and tennis fathers unpresentable (The Royal Tenenbaums) and children without a compass (The Darjeeling Limited) make you smile, but with a bitter bonus identification. So just remain in the queue at the counter of a shop selling video games, uncomfortable with the certainty of being surrounded by children of middle and high school (which by the way in online games beat you regularly), and there is the friend that charitable - believing that a compliment - said the white tufts on your temples with "the older man has its charm," and you think "mature? ', In more ways than one.

The maturity is in the eye of the beholder (in itself), especially for those who wanted to be different from the generation that preceded them, with its leaps through the decades intercepted ideological attachment to the powers (small or large) accumulated, and that nostalgia for Italy in Black and White 'Carousel 'that you might not have never existed. What you have tried to do growing up was an attempt: to be a husband, a father, a homeowner with a adjustable rate mortgage than their husbands, fathers, and so you've seen - and little-estimated in the previous generation to yours. As long as you understand, during a marathon night of games, which were buried in the couch just like them and that the attempt to find a different route to becoming an adult has clashed with the reality of the many excuses that you have always been good at finding. For this, forty years to make the recalcitrant professionals disappointment is even less pleasant experience than it was for previous generations: to protect themselves from the consequences of unrealistic expectations for the future, when at last the future comes, the shield is not even enough irony, which as everyone knows is the weapon of the weak.

Matthew Persivale
June 5, 2010

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