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Posted by David B. on 4/2/2006, 5:06 pm On the one hand, so much of the whole institution of adulthood is just so much subservient bullshit designed to emotionally blackmail people into being a cog in the machine. As I once said to my exasperated sister who wondered why I refused to assimilate this way "Life is too short and precious a gift to waste it on acting grown up." On the other, so many of the things listed in the article as traits of that group are as shallow and consumerist as the establishment they purport to disdain. In many cases, it sounds as if many of those “grups,” far from living any true alternative, are just the other side of the same coin they claim to be an alternative to. And I have to say I just love the wittiness of the moniker “Dorian Graybeards.” It was worth reading the article just for that little gem alone. But the following made me yell “bullshit!:” "This, of course, is a seismic shift in intergenerational relationships. It means there is no fundamental generation gap anymore. This is unprecedented in human history. And it’s kind of weird." “Unprecedented in human history?” Really? Didn’t the term “generation gap” only first come about in the Sixties? Isn’t the whole concept of an adolescent phase of rebellion (and an associated generation gap)actually a fairly new one? I’m reasonably sure that, until, say, 100 or 120 years ago, life spans were short enough and educational demands low enough that most people just went from childhood into marriage and family life. And the pace of progress was slow enough that the generations weren’t sufficiently different from each other. -- 43-year-old nose-ringed anarchist who has no idea what Death Cab for Cutie sounds like and wouldn’t be caught dead wearing $400 designer jeans.
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