If Coleman's admission that "the majority of parents today say they feel closer to their adult children than they believe their parents felt to them" had been the lede instead of being buried near the end, it would have been a much different interview. Exaggerating problems to where it blinds us to the progress we've made is one of the main reasons so many people are convinced that everything sucks and it's only getting worse, why they become convinced that extreme and undemocratic ideologies are what's needed to fix it.