In her new book, “The Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s Arrested Development is Bringing Down Western Civilization,” Diana West argues that the steadily expanding
reach of youth culture over the last half century has brought Western
civilization to the brink of disaster.

What?

The steadily expanding reach of youth culture has brought Western civilization to the brink of disaster. That and incompetent leadership, global warming, corruption, war, greed, famine, cronyism, poverty, nuclear weapons, and enviornmental abuse.

I just don’t think you’re fighting the right fight, Diana. Nor a winning fight.

Aren’t you complaining about youth the way your parent’s complained about you and the ’60s and the hippies and the Beatles and long hair? The way parents today complain about rap and hip hop and the internet? The way I’ll be complaining about whatever god-forsaken music and clothes my rebellious and progressive kids will come up with?

And for all of Diana West’s conservative jibber-jabber in her feeble attempt to place the blame for her discomfort somewhere, anywhere, isn’t the problem not with kids not growing up, but just with kids themselves?

Kids are gross.

Let’s eat the babies.

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