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...elderly are quick -- and correct -- to denounce the low savings rate among the young. But the growing reliance on subsidies from older generations is more a function of despair than greed, reflecting the downward mobility of millions of young families. "Inheritance looms larger by default," says Phillip Longman, author of Born to Pay: The New Politics of Aging in America. "Increasingly, the only way for the young middle class to stay in the middle class is to inherit the trappings...
Obviously there are still deep underlying trends, indicative of seismic- scale cultural drift. Assisted suicide, for example. Abandoning the elderly in their wheelchairs. Intergenerational downward mobility. But these are not the kind of things one would want to see spread around the world like Hula Hoops, stamped MADE IN THE U.S.A. The same goes for the cannibalism trend as promoted by Anthony Hopkins, not to mention Studs-like game shows, in which attractive young people make witty remarks about body parts...
...depression rates vary widely from place to place, and there are age groups in which the trend jumps upward or even temporarily downward. In Beirut, for example, periods of especially severe political unrest were paralleled by a sharp rise in depression. Overall, though, the trend is steadily upward in every age group. The cause? Researchers suggest it might have to do with the breakdown of families, or increased drug use, or the fact that more people are living in cities. The truth is they simply don't know, which is depressing in itself...
...least that's the inescapable impression conveyed by Automatic for the People, R.E.M.'s follow- up to its 1991 critical and commercial smash, Out of Time. The record gets off to a somber start with Drive, a dirgelike number featuring lyricist and lead singer Michael Stipe, and continues its downward spiral with a string of songs that meander into a morass of hopelessness, anger and loss...
...point increase represents the turningpoint of a downward trend in participation amongyouth voters, Gans said. Previously, 18 to 24 yearolds had the highest rate of decrease amongvoters...