Byline: PAUL VALENTINE
A major outcome of the culture wars of the last 50 years can be summarized in a single phrase: the juvenilization of America.
Its impact, fashioned by Madison Avenue, driven by the TV networks, crowned by Hollywood and bought by our social systems from education to religion to the courts, is so pervasive that the good that came out of those same culture wars is now substantively diminished.
The tendency of American adults to revert to or remain in essentially juvenile behavior has grown like spawn in a petri dish of narcissism, instant gratification and reduced attention spans -- the social markers of adolescence -- all carefully cultivated by …
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