Generation A

by Douglas Coupland

“Look, Julien, you’re twenty-two and your frontal lobe is incomplete. Argue all you will, but it’s a scientific fact. And part of having a frontal lobe still in development is the sense that you have a right to scorn everything around you, but all you really are is a biological cliché. Your brain has a few more years to go, so for the time being, you’re this judgment robot and everything you think and feel is the product of incomplete cortical hookups and hormone-driven whims. So don’t try to pull any sort of superiority trip on me, because at the moment, what you consider to be your personality is, to me, an unwanted and boring obstacle in the way of finding out what we need to know.”

How hard can it be to change gears and say, You know what? Instead of inventing and telling stories, I’m going to make my life a more interesting story.”

… Not hungry? Fine. Don’t eat your fucking dinner. I’ve got better things to do than micromanage your food intake.