LA Times · Aug 31, 2015
Don't be so quick to mock colleges on 'trigger warnings' and 'micro-aggressions'
A professor lectures to his students at the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento in February. (Los Angeles Times)Everyone knows that kids find their elders deeply uncool. We'll reveal our own uncoolness by citing John Sebastian's 1969 song "Younger Generation" to prove the point. "Why must every generation think their folks are square?" he asks. The lyrics go on to offer an uncomfortable futuristic scenario: a child who tells his dad about taking LSD and riding a toy vehicle that goes 200 miles an hour.