In a post called ‘Is Youthful Rebellion Back?’, Ed Cotton of Influx suggests that we’d be foolish to see the activities of the kids of Paris as a global trend:
What’s happening is the “The Entitlement Generation” doesn’t want to lose its entitlement. When you look closely, it appears that Western youth has little to rebel against. When fashion and music tips are traded with your best friends, your parents, there is no reason to rebel. The generation gap has been blown away… So today’s teens are not growing up like teens of previous generations, they are “conforming up” to be adults as quick as possible.
Influx wrote about this before and even then we commented:
Now everyone is a teenager, maybe real teenagers do not have the options anymore to define their own identity?
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The only anarchistic kids I’ve seen in recent years was in Spain. Not your trustafarian types but proper hardcore mentalists. There still hope yet…
April 7th, 2006 at 11:45 am
dude ive seen anarchy were ever i go in the west east and central of america anarchy is growing in the us compaired to any other country one day usa will never have a goverment cause of the anarchy around here im an anarchist my self the govermentis just some thing that takes things and makes rules for us they say we have freedom that is not true if we had freedom we wouldnt have lawsthe goverment is dumb they just drain money from us
July 6th, 2007 at 10:38 am