8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
The ruling elite has created social institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance. Full Story »
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Posted by Dwight Rousu - Aug 1, 2011 - 4:14 PM PDT
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Dwight Rousu - Aug 1, 2011 - 4:16 PM PDT
it is an opinion piece that gathers and links together several arguments relating to the strangely disconnected and apathetic younger generations (even the term apathetic has been dropped, as the condition suits commentators and advertisers just fine). All have been put forward before but it is helpful to see them summarized. I have some quibbles with it, and i think it fails to pay enough attention to social networking sites in a largely consumerist, suburbanized context, but on the whole it is refreshing to see someone taking a wider than usual view of social behavior. I also think that many of these arguments apply to those no-longer young, of course. These processes have pervaded the developed world through the latter half ... More »
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