...not what I got from it, certainly. I took the main point to be "chaos is fun" and if you want to minimize chaos you need leadership to be fun, too.Is this not restating the old-as-humanity trope of "these kids today"?
But chaos is fun only when you are young and know it all. When you are married and have a mortgage and kids, donning the black and going out and rioting every night just isn't in the cards. It is neither fun nor productive. So isn't the author really just indirectly using the "these kids today" trope? Can't we restate his whole article as, "For these kids to affect real change, they need to stop burning stuff up, and start going to City Council meetings. Here's a recipe for how to make them do that..." Which is just, "hey kids, grow up. This isn't how Things Get Done." Or is there more nuance I am missing here...?