Graceland/Call Me Al (African Concert)...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFecU-Xa4Jc
8/27/10
Quote of the Day: Jon Talton
In a country where high self-esteem is unearned...
They say the old end up in another country even if they stay where they are. Such a realization is coming younger now, at least to those who are paying attention.
The popular story concerns the opposite direction: The supposed postponed adulthood of Americans with twenty-and even thirtysomethings living at home with their parents, etc. The New York Times Magazine devoted a long thumbsucker asking, "Why are so many people taking so long to grow up." Talk about a foreign country: My generation couldn't wait to get out on their own. I can't even imagine.
[T]his current "won't grow up" phenomenon is rooted in privilege. It also includes many middle-class young adults who are living off the wealth that their parents inherited from a generation of Americans that actually made things and fully participated in the fruits of the dying middle class. The latter will not last.
[S]till, it makes you wonder about the future of a society where infantilization and sloth are becoming not just acceptable, but a norm to be celebrated and studied and explained by professors and shrinks.
Jon Talton
"The slipstream of time"
Rogue Columnist
They say the old end up in another country even if they stay where they are. Such a realization is coming younger now, at least to those who are paying attention.
The popular story concerns the opposite direction: The supposed postponed adulthood of Americans with twenty-and even thirtysomethings living at home with their parents, etc. The New York Times Magazine devoted a long thumbsucker asking, "Why are so many people taking so long to grow up." Talk about a foreign country: My generation couldn't wait to get out on their own. I can't even imagine.
[T]his current "won't grow up" phenomenon is rooted in privilege. It also includes many middle-class young adults who are living off the wealth that their parents inherited from a generation of Americans that actually made things and fully participated in the fruits of the dying middle class. The latter will not last.
[S]till, it makes you wonder about the future of a society where infantilization and sloth are becoming not just acceptable, but a norm to be celebrated and studied and explained by professors and shrinks.
Jon Talton
"The slipstream of time"
Rogue Columnist
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