Cultural stasis is usually a dynamic equilibrium. People move into subcultures, people move out, but if they move at a nearly equal rate, there might be very little net change. People observe change in their own environment, and then incorrectly extrapolate. 2/5
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But if you grow up assuming that everybody who's not as compulsive about self-disclosure as you is *actually* free of uncertainties, wild ideas, personal flaws, or embarrassing decisions, you're going to assume there's no common ground between you.
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Also. Being not quite a young person myself any more, I now think I was confused as to what "older people advising younger people" is supposed to mean.
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"35% of MIT grad students have never had sex, compared to only 20% of average nineteen year old men."https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/31/radicalizing-the-romanceless/ …
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That might be generationally (and nationally) specific though.
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