Should Young Writers 'Wait Their Turn?'

In what might be the most highbrow get-off-my-lawn ever written (19 literary names dropped; references to typewriter brands; a dig at the new New Republic, and some untranslated, Kant-referencing German for good measure), fiction writer and essayist Cynthia Ozick complains in the New York Times that today’s young writers aren’t content to wait their turn. She’s right that writing as a profession has changed, but the question is whether the difference between the idealized past and the decadent present is one of culture or infrastructure (that is, technological and economic developments). Ozick appears to think it’s the former, and faults today’s young writers for excessive ambition