If you’ve been reading my online writings for any length of time, you may already be aware that I’m a fan of the works of William Strauss and Neil Howe, who’ve proposed a generational theory of history and culture that involves a regular, pendulumlike shift in attitudes every 25 years or so -- that is, about once per generation. I’m not gonna go into a lot of detail here: read The Fourth Turning [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon U.K.] or particularly Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon U.K.] for more info, or see FourthTurning.com. Briefly, though, as it relates to pop culture, a very illustrative example concerns how small children are treated on TV and in the movies. In the 1950s and early 1960s, for instance, kids were Opie and the Beaver: they were cute and coddled and treasured and protected. In the later 1960s and through the 1970s, kids were quite...
- 7/29/2009
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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