The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Wester

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"From Publishers Weekly
West, a Washington Times columnist with a hard-line conservative's interest in culture, sounds a dire alarm over an age she sees marked by the mainstreaming of countercultural behavior. An unprecedented reversal of priorities from parents to children has occurred since the 1950s, according to West, allowing for structural failures that permitted the behavioral revolutions of the 1960s to go forward unimpeded. To support her case, West draws on sources generally weighted to the right end of the political spectrum, like Robert Bork and Daniel Pipes. Her examination of the social repercussions of a new youth market would be better grounded within the context of the transformations in postwar American society, but she focuses instead on the negative aspects of these large and complex changes, without reflecting on her underlying assumptions. In her view, the prolonged adolescence of baby boomers has left America open to an insidious Islamization of culture via a misconceived political correctness that can't recognize the dehumanizing ideology of that religion. West, a vocal purveyor of distrust toward Islamic cultures, lays nothing less than the decline of Western civilization on the American counterculture, making her argument compelling only to those already in her corner. (Aug.)
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Cool, you can read it online

 

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This is very interesting to me

I noticed this about 15 years ago, when I was in my late 20's. People seemed to behave and look much younger than say back in the 70"s. I think it is a combination of people not want ing to be like their parents, and nutritional and beauty preventative chioces people make, they are looking and behaving younger. When I turned 30, I looked 23 and felt like an 18 yo. I am in my 40's, Look 33 and feel like Im in my 20's. My guess is people don't drink and smoke like they did, and try to protect themselves from too much sun, and feel younger. Some people are just immature. I don't know if this is bad or not. Only time will tell, Like when our kids regularly turn 100, and act like a bunch of 60 year olds.