The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization Book

â??WHERE HAVE ALL THE GROWN-UPS GONE?â? That is the provocative question Washington Times syndicated columnist Diana West asks as she looks at America today. Sadly, hereâ??s what she finds: Itâ??s difficult to tell the grown-ups from the children in a landscape littered with Baby Britneys, Moms Who Mosh, and Dads too â??youngâ? to call themselves â??mister.â? Surveying this sorry scene, West makes a much larger statement about our place in the world: â??No wonder we canâ??t stop Islamic terrorism. We havenâ??t put away our toys!â? As far as West is concerned, grown-ups are extinct. The disease that killed them emerged in the fifties, was incubated in the sixties, and became an epidemic in the seventies, leaving behind a nation of eternal adolescents who canâ??t say "no," a politically correct population that doesnâ??t know right from wrong. The result of such indecisiveness is, ultimately, the end of Western civilization as we know it. This is because the inability to take on the grown-up role of gatekeeper influences more than whether a sixteen-year-old should attend a Marilyn Manson concert. It also fosters the dithering cultural relativism that arose from the â??culture warsâ? in the eighties and which now undermines our efforts in the â??realâ? culture war of the 21st centuryâ??the war on terror. With insightful wit, Diana West takes readers on an odyssey through culture and politics, from the rise of rock â??nâ?? roll to the rise of multiculturalism, from the loss of identity to the discovery of â??diversity,â? from the emasculation of the heroic ideal to the â??PCâ?-ing of â??Mary Poppins,â? all the while building a compelling case against the childishness that is subverting the struggle against jihadist Islam in a mixed-up, post-9/11 world. With a new foreword for the paperback edition, "The Death of the Grown-up," is a bracing read from one of the most original voices on the American cultural scene.Read More

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  • 0312340494
  • 9780312340490
  • Diana West
  • 16 September 2008
  • St. Martin's Griffin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
  • Reprint
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