Through the early Unraveling years, recent graduates heard older writers and columnists call them a “nowhere generation,” a “tired generation,” a “generation of animals,” a “high-expectation, low-sweat generation,” and “an army of Bart Simpsons, armed and possibly dangerous.” Russell Baker decried their “herky-jerky brain” and “indifference to practically everything on the planet that is interesting, infuriating, maddening, exhilarating, fascinating, amusing, and nutty.”