Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clueless 14-year-old will slip white shoes onto her black-stockinged legs, and no one will stop her. No leonine six-footer will swoop down from the sky to grab the pumps from her pudgy little feet and rescue her from fashion disaster. No, the skies are empty today. Because the supermodel is dead...
...weaves her anecdotes together with science--for example, a Harvard study finding that severe trauma may alter both the chemistry and structure of the brain and other body systems meant to handle stress. And she chronicles the problems that researchers have, even today, in getting institutions to take the problem seriously. Two scientists at the National Institute of Mental Health, for example, were stymied when they attempted to undertake a groundbreaking study of the connection between childhood sexual abuse and adult disorders such as self-injury. "We don't do that kind of research," the researchers say they were told...
...fact, something's going on, but you don't know what it is. Look at TV advertising. The innocent kids with beads and flowers who once provided amusement have mutated into digital doods and tough grrls with nose rings and attitudes. Viewers recognize that today's teenagers aren't the young conservatives of the Reagan era. The kids are starting to seem countercultural again; we just haven't verbalized...
...kids are smarter and hipper than the boomers in their prime, why aren't they changing the world? You already know the easy answers. AIDS, harder drugs, pocket-size weapons of mass destruction, global warming, economic scarcity--the world today doesn't lend itself to simplistic oppositions or easy optimism. But beyond that, the new counterculture is basically postpolitical and tribalized. The TAZ movement eschews changing the world in favor of finding some liberated space, or even a liberated moment, within it. And from goths to rastas to ravers to slackers, the focus of countercultural tribes is on evolving alternative...
...counterculture" in opposition to it, comes from a time when there was a consensus reality constructed of centralized media, personified by the three TV networks. We were all tuned in to the same narrative, one involving a war, a President, blacks vs. cops and narcs vs. hippies. Today's counterculturalists, raised on 60 channels of cable TV, the Net and the Web, have less impetus to fix their attention on the main event. Youths who pay attention to politics today form a subculture almost as small as boomers who are Tricky fans...