All of American society and with the help of the MSM is geared to the very young.
Keeping people in the status of a prolonged incubation certainly is good for the MSM, the Government, the politicians, and of course for advertisers.
Just look at the products and services which sponsor the MSM and also listen to the language across the board in the delivery of ‘news’, in advertising, in ‘entertainment’, etc.
If you are in the least educated or mature it is certainly offensively stupid.
I think the rise of mass media just coincidentally happened to occur at the exact same time as the baby boom. Which made it seem as if marketing to the youth was a good plan. But as the baby boomers age, media is still pushing it wares on the youth, which is now a mistake since the big bulge in the population is much older.
While we may be living basically as children all the way up to our 30’s (the total life expectancy in the middle ages) our bodies are maturing earlier and earlier sexually. It is not uncommon for girls to start puberty as young as 8 or 9 now!
If these “kids” don't mentally mature until 28 or 29... that means they are expected to wait 20 YEARS to satisfy the urges they started to experience at 8 -9 !