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March 22, 2005
What's Wrong With Youth Culture?
In the wake of yesterday's horrific school shooting, Hugh Hewitt is asking an important question. I'm only twenty-three; I think I know a fair amount about youth culture. I won't get into it tonight, because this is a lot think about. It's an idea I want to revisit over time, in hopes that we might come to some conclusions.
Posted by Matt at March 22, 2005 10:43 PM
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Any answer will be overdetermined. We could just as easily ask what's wrong with the culture of adults that it turned out the beltway sniper, or what was wrong with high Victorian culture that it turned out Jack the Ripper. In other words, without evidence that youth culture, per se, distinguishes itself in the quantity or quality of psychos it turns out, we can't be sure that there is something in youth culture specifically that forms psychos. We can't be sure what level of generality we should be interrogating for these answers. It could just as easily be a human condition; or capitalism; or America; or the West.
Posted by: jpe at March 23, 2005 09:03 AM
Ideas to eliminate.
One, the entitlement to fifteen minutes of fame.
Two, the concept of victimhood.
Three: doping school children with pychotropic drugs.
Ideas to establish.
One, the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do undo you.
Two, being good is better than being noticed.
Three, the measure of a peraon is his character.
These would help.
Posted by: David L at March 23, 2005 10:17 AM