Alexander Bloom
Alexander Bloom
bubble cynical early idealism kids late saw starting types
There's an idealism starting to bubble up again. Today's kids aren't the materialist, MBA, Bonfire-of-the-Vanities types that you saw in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They're also not the weary, cynical types who think they can't do anything.
add extra kids weight whatever
Kids add an extra weight to whatever is going on,
arrest authority child deeper goes impact kid level people population risking similar stories strike
Murdered children, child prodigies - those stories strike the population at a different level than stories of adults experiencing similar things. The same goes for young people at protests. There's a deeper impact when you see a kid confronting authority or risking arrest because of his beliefs.
becomes careful country goes road
She has to be careful that she doesn't become her own road show, in which she becomes someone who goes around the country as an extraordinary person, in some ways.