Tonight's Daily Show interview
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spqrbluesSo, I was going to say something about the Earthsea miniseries, but I said it over on OutsideFood and on the TwoP message boards, and I'm going to ramble here instead.
So.
Am I really young... or am I witnessing some sort of Baby Boomer meltdown?
Katie Couric is discussing with Jon Stewart an upcoming special on sex and teenagers she will be hosting. She mentioned her own kid (or kids) entering teenage years. Not so long ago a New York Times Magazine issue fretted for many pages about how oh dear kids are talking about oh my gosh you-know-what. I don't really count the current neocon panic in this observation; they would be panicking regardless. Or maybe I should count them in—they are fanning the flames of everyone else's meltdown.
"Grownups" these days seem so terribly shocked that teenagers are interested in or having sex, that they are sophisticated and dating and having yegads relationships. As we know, nobody used to do that in the 50s or 60s or 70s or 80s or, apparently, 90s.
Maybe that generation older than I am but not old enough to be my parents, just suddenly twigged to this because of their own teenaged kids, and so are now running around in mad circles about how things are so so terribly different than ever they were before? When they were growing up, it was an age of innocence! It used to be that we were all innocent pre-Kennedy Assassination, but now, apparently, we were all innocent back when I was a teenager, too. Who knew.
I don't know whether to be grateful or disturbed that no one seems to have noticed that nothing much has changed, ever.
Or maybe I'm just suffering from Katie Couric-exposure.
So.
Am I really young... or am I witnessing some sort of Baby Boomer meltdown?
Katie Couric is discussing with Jon Stewart an upcoming special on sex and teenagers she will be hosting. She mentioned her own kid (or kids) entering teenage years. Not so long ago a New York Times Magazine issue fretted for many pages about how oh dear kids are talking about oh my gosh you-know-what. I don't really count the current neocon panic in this observation; they would be panicking regardless. Or maybe I should count them in—they are fanning the flames of everyone else's meltdown.
"Grownups" these days seem so terribly shocked that teenagers are interested in or having sex, that they are sophisticated and dating and having yegads relationships. As we know, nobody used to do that in the 50s or 60s or 70s or 80s or, apparently, 90s.
Maybe that generation older than I am but not old enough to be my parents, just suddenly twigged to this because of their own teenaged kids, and so are now running around in mad circles about how things are so so terribly different than ever they were before? When they were growing up, it was an age of innocence! It used to be that we were all innocent pre-Kennedy Assassination, but now, apparently, we were all innocent back when I was a teenager, too. Who knew.
I don't know whether to be grateful or disturbed that no one seems to have noticed that nothing much has changed, ever.
Or maybe I'm just suffering from Katie Couric-exposure.
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Date: 2004-12-16 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-20 06:15 pm (UTC)But very few people seem to get the point.
Speaking of Pliny, I guess I ought to fix my Herculaneum walkthrough website before that big Pompeii special comes on in January, in case someone googles into it....
And I will not think about how I wanted to grow up and make specials on Pompeii myself. No no no.
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Date: 2004-12-17 05:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-20 06:10 pm (UTC)The sexual revolution has become jaded
Date: 2004-12-20 06:14 pm (UTC)