08-06-2022, 12:44 PM
(06-01-2022, 08:45 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:Quote:In recent times, definition of youth by culture and mores defined generations. Kids need only reach their late teens to be so defined. Achieving professional and economic adulthood takes much more time Culture may have defined adulthood from at the latest at the least the Lost up to Boomers. Thus the Lost get 18 years of youth, GI's 24, the Silent 19, Boomers 18, and X 21.
They may be defined during their late teens, but, as most people who have interacted with teenagers well know, that identity usually isn't stable until closer to 20-22, with one's political beliefs tending to be formed mostly between, say, 18-24.
They are still going with the crowd. Some people outgrow the mass low culture. or the low culture begins to lose some of its attractiveness as it loses characteristics which once made it appealing. Disco (for its shallowness) was good for turning me off from the pop music scene once and for all. Still, does a personal 'discovery' of Mozart really change one's political, moral, or economic values? Probably not. The pop culture going into the mid-1970's often had some wit and at least intellectual pretense. What followed lost that pretension and proved mindless. GI commentator Herb Caen heard what child X'ers were listening to and was appalled at the emptiness of what he heard.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.