Kurt Vonnegut claimed that life is not much different than what we all went through in high school. For Aaron Schuster, that statement is reason enough to proclaim the teen movie – with all of its adolescent intrigues, sex, violence and foolishness – the best representation of American society.

Is there such a thing as a generation? What would its characteristics be? The current generation of those in their late twenties and early thirties is described as relatively bourgeois, very professional, purist, without rough edges and very strongly structured. Bregje van Woensel (35) converses with sociologist and contemporary Willem Schinkel (33) about the sense and nonsense of generational thinking.