Youth Culture – Quotes

The 1970s, the decade

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture. Eric Allin Cornell

When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There’s just stuff I don’t get. And there’s something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don’t try to pretend. Emily Yoffe

The surest way to

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche

Since the 1960s, mainstream

Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica – they’ll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall. Douglas Rushkoff

I’m interested in youth

I’m interested in youth culture – when your parents are running your life, but you think you’re the big man – but I’m not trying to make a statement. Chris Lilley

Britney Spears. Because she’s

Britney Spears. Because she’s a girl, I wouldn’t smack her – I’d lock her in a closet with poisonous spiders or something. Let her think about what she’s doing to the youth culture of America. Brandon Boyd

Ours is a youth

Ours is a youth culture, and like a golf tournament, we honor only low scores. Bill Cosby

I think there was

I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it was when the baby boomers, who let’s face it, take up a lot of space on the planet, were young. Anna Quindlen

All of youth culture

All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it’s part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general. Ani DiFranco

I think the music

I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it’s become very, very savvy. There’s a very short grace period in which actual human rebellion or resistance can thrive before it’s co-opted by these huge companies. And all of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this … Read more