Living in a World Too Complicated to Understand

Most of us sense it, even if we can’t always put it into words: life keeps getting more complicated. Every year brings more forms to fill out, more apps to master, more passwords to remember, and more rules we’re expected to follow. For many people, it feels like the world is being built for somebody else—and in a way, it is.

The Lost Boys of the West: Why So Many Young Men Are Stuck—and How We Might Help Them Find Their Way

A generation ago, the typical arc of a young man’s life followed a predictable script: graduate, get a job, move out, maybe get married, build a life. Today, that script is in shreds—and for a growing cohort of young men in the West, it’s not being rewritten so much as left blank.