The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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.
I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.
I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.
Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
The youth is the hope of our future.
Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.
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.
There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.