I agree to some extent. I don’t really think that people are remaining in “a state of childhood” as you put it but more so that people are actually forced to think about the future in an unhealthy way. Kids aren’t acting like kids because they are told even before high school that if they fuck up that their life will already be ruined and there will be nothing they can do to fix it. Which leads to them focusing on school or not connecting others. I have more I could say but I think that the lack of sex and drugs are a knock on effect from some pretty unhealthy things that people are making kids think.