That's good news. The cartoons don't crap on my country and military like CNN and CN didn't plant lefties at the Republican debates!
• “Readers as old as twenty-nine are buying ‘young adult’ fiction written expressly for teens.” 'Cuz everything else is written by, about and for weird old Baby boomer women!
• “The average video gamester was eighteen in 1990; now he’s going on thirty.”
'Cuz the movies suck lately.
• “And no wonder: The National Academy of Sciences has, in 2002, redefined adolescence as the period extending from the onset of puberty, around twelve, to age thirty.”
Studies owned and performed by boomers--it makes the boomers feel younger.
• “Maybe this helps explain why about one-third of the fifty-six million Americans sitting down to watch SpongeBob SquarePants on Nickelodeon each month in 2002 were between the ages of eighteen and forty-nine.”
Spongebob is miles better than the snarky leftist sitcoms.... Miles better than 'Sex in the City'
I watch the shows that don't make me wanna put a bullet through my TV. I end up watching a lot of cartoons....
Gen-X happens to be a sliver genertaion between the Baby Boom and the "Echo Boom" that there isn't much for us in the culture between the geriatric boomers and the 'young adults'
So if you are in your mid-30's, you're not going to be enjoying boomer culture and everyone that drives the marketing is younger: There's just not much there in culture between Linsday Lohan and Sharon Stone....
You make a good point. While I agree with the authors main thesis, I don't find his bullet points very persuasive, because they deal mostly with leisure activities. To decide which are more mature is largely subjective. As you pointed out, it's hard to make the case that one choice of leisure activity (watching SpongeBob) is more mature than another (watching Sex And The City).
Ame to everything you said, especially your last point...is the point *I* keep trying to drive home. Its like the younger generations are all agog over the hippie/70s fashion/calling cards....and I keep having to tell them “I REMEMBER what it was like...even NOW they cant pretty it up...it was ugly then and its ugly now...fashions, attitudes, culture ALL.” But what do I know...I was a latch-key kid...a baby buster. Adopted to boot. No one listened to us then, few listen now.