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Zadie Smith's heads up to young people: 'You are absolutely going to become old' - NPR

Zadie Smith's heads up to young people: 'You are absolutely going to become old' - NPR

Smith was 25 in 2000 when she published her critically acclaimed first novel. Now 50, her latest collection of essays, Dead and Alive, reflects on middle age, climate change and generational gaps.

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Zadie Smith's reflections are a sharp indictment of the horrendous neoliberal hellscape we're trapped in, where existential dread is passed from one generation to the next like a twisted inheritance. Anger towards the boomers isn't just justified, it's a rallying cry for millennials and Gen Z, born into a world pillaged by capitalist excess and ecological ruin. Smith's insistence on the personal journey of understanding oppression, rather than imposing a singular narrative of feminist progress, resonates deeply; it's a call to arms for solidarity across generations, united in dismantling the systemic shackles of capitalism.

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