Instead of taking the correct lesson from Bob Dylan’s 1973 anthem “Forever Young”—to “grow up to be righteous” and “always be courageous”—way too many baby boomers chose to remain in Neverland, to keep believing they’d always have nothing but fun and never resemble mom and dad. The principle set forth in Peter Pan—“All children, except one, grow up”—was just another oppressive and unfair old-fashioned rule to be cast off.
