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The Age of Adolescence
One of the great themes of the 1960s was to do your own thing. But usually liberation distilled down to creating your own rules and norms to justify allowing the appetites and passions to run free, while offering some sort of exalted cover for being either gross or mediocre or both.The hip generation that came of age talked about a new, perpetually youthful world that would supplant the values and aspirations of a fading bankrupt establishment (e.g., cf. Bob Dylans the order is rapidly fading). And in time the promise of the sixties, in fact, did permeate the last half-century, creating a contemporary culture of perpetual adolescence, of defying norms and protocols without offering anything much in their place. ...Unfortunately, our parents are dead. So who cleans up the messes? Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-12-01 |
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