Unmoored and Purposeless in a Vague Way

From a moderately interesting article about the boom in "boy studies" and the debate over whether boys are having some kind of crisis, I extract this from psychologist Sara Mead:

What seems to most resonate with teachers and parents is not as much the empirical evidence but this sense of boys being unmoored or purposeless in a vaguely defined way.

And this, it seems to me, puts the finger on what is wrong with our entire civilization: we are unmoored and purposeless in a vague way.