I can see why you're pissed off klein, but at the end of the day it's just a stupid fucking book about wizards. You can criticize it, but to blame it for any kind of broader social changes is crazy talk.

And holy wack dude! I was ready to hop right on that generational gap wisdom which is why I bothered vomiting personal experience in the first place but I think it's just you. Once you mentioned that 17-y/o in your class hating on millenials. It's not Gen-Z being different because they experience the fucking Hunger Games. It's because you're in CNC class with the fucking pickup truck guys who hate the art kids and libtards. And they're gonna be automated in a few years anyway.

I feel like you know this. I sense you're too narrowly focused. Which is why this is turning into what it is. I sense you see the Hogwarts sweater as "just another stupid thing" people are doing but you can drive yourself crazy over other people's bad taste. You're reading waay too much into it.

I'm guilty of this too. My friends say "you overanalyze everything."

Here's what I'm saying: shit changed, yo, and Harry Potter is a part of that. Not the only part, not the most important part. But what you make your dreams out of influences how you live your life.

Career direction -> hogwarts? Communist Party? Abstract art?

Yes by all means you're a rebel and being a rebel is tough. But you're also a hooligan. Hooligans do not get the concessions that rebels do.

I'm neither a rebel nor a hooligan. I want you to re-read that article you linked; it applies to you more than it applies to me. Cause I'm an apostrophe. I'm just a symbol to remind you that there's more to see.