This is what's interesting to me--so many of the kulturkampf fronts of the previous generation feel totally orthogonal. We haven't "cured" teenage pregnancy but we definitely have seen it become a third or fourth-order concern. Nobody quite knows what they ideologically think about video games (and the second-order impllications of video games for _reducing_ crime complicate the hottest of takes).

The idea that a lot of the Discourse of today and days past were about justifying policing--about getting the kids off one's lawn--does work to make sense of this! On the other hand, there's also not a lot of thought about what an ideal childhood under actually existing circumstances would look like and how we would go about promoting that as a project.