Youth culture represents the perfect human contradiction. When you are young, your particular generation influences the large culture enormously, but only for a short time.<\/p>\n
Whether bobbysoxer, beatnik, hippie, emocore, Swiftie or whatever, there is a brief moment in history when your group of young people holds center stage in the culture. And then history moves on.<\/p>\n
The cultural dominance you have in your youth is the most ephemeral of superpowers, gone before it has hardly begun. And yet youth culture itself is immortal.<\/p>\n
Even in ancient times young people were making an impression. Just check out what Socrates said about the youth of his day<\/a>, according to Plato.<\/p>\n Since then, the power of youth to make their presence felt has not diminished. I suspect it never will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Youth culture represents the perfect human contradiction. When you are young, your particular generation influences the large culture enormously, but only for a short time. Whether bobbysoxer, beatnik, hippie, emocore, Swiftie or whatever, there is a brief moment in history when your group of young people holds center stage in the culture. And then history … Continue reading “The irony of youth culture”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26779"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26781,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26779\/revisions\/26781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}