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Originally Posted by macrodollar

Nay, my friend. Youth culture didn't exist in its own right until the 50s as far as I am aware, kids just lived amongst their parents. I'm so glad someone put a stop to that!

age segregation, which is the artificial isolation of people in age ghettos, is a factory of dead intellects and maimed souls. teenagers are not a bunch of cunts per se, it's when they talk only to themselves & believe their own crap without any additional input that they become life's equivalent of walking turds. same thing happens to any age group as a matter of fact-- children adults, the old, you name it. they become close-minded & "spiritually" dead. you need a mixture of innovation & experience to have a rich culture that does not fossilize.

having said that, young people have always come up w/ new shit. go read about the german romantics in the late-late XVIII early-XIX century who would put today's "youth culture" to shame as a tired repetition of commercial values. jean-paul, novalis, the schlegel brothers, von kleist, tiek, fichte, etc.