Emerging Adult what?

   I don't blame Arnett for trying to arrive at some profound discovery.  I think that's rad.  It doesn't make it real or right.  Humans get so confused with the order of events.  This very smart person trying to capture lightning with this whole "emerging adulthood" bit is missing what his needs won't allow him to see which is that this stage, as he puts it, exists now only because it can.  The world that the brain exists in during this time period is physically responding to it's environment, not the other way around.  People are living longer, divorce is rampant, money for nothing and your chicks for free.  Traditional adulthood isn't hip. Youth culture is our culture.  Emerging adulthood isn't a fixed property or stage that everyone always has to go through and always has throughout time.  It's something that is available to a larger group right now than ever before due to our population largely and our society and therefore the brain stalls out independence and later stage growth because it's just not necessary yet.  It's a super computer.  It's highly efficient and can sense quite a bit and can even control it's own development.  

   The baby boomers of their time had other things that they saw as hip.  You had less slackers or people going through emerging adulthood because it wasn't chic and the young floating brains during that time sensed that and they reacted, creating people that were just jolly as all get out to become married, buy that house, have them babies, and punch that time card! Emerging adulthood, for my two sense is a person not understanding how connected we all are to each other and everything around us.  At best, its a misinterpretation of an ability that the brain has to survive comfortably.