The Voice of Her Generation

British singer Adele crystallizes the primary ambition of her slacker-sponger peers:

She recently recalled that ‘the ambition at my state school was to get pregnant and sponge off the Government’, adding: ‘That ain’t cool.’

No, it ain't. It's lazy as hell and decadent beyond words, and it's a big part of the reason why the West in general and the U.K. in particular are going down for the count.