Where Have All the Slackers Gone?

What happens in a society that has gone from negative to positive reinforcement of power?

“Where have all the cowboys gone?” asked the indie one hit wonder Paula Cole in 1997, as Gen-X was beginning to settle into the routine of corporate jobs and families. Had she any foresight, she’d be asking a different question about where to look for romance (has she ever met an actual cowboy?), and how the next two and a half decades would destroy wha…