This episode is part of the School News! series.
“Our views on teens are largely determined by the powerful messages our media sources and thought leaders feed us daily: teens are reckless, incompetent, and violent; young people need to be sheltered; childhood should be extended as long as possible. Our views can reasonably be conceived of as a kind of irrational prejudice programmed by our culture – almost precisely the kind that mainstream Americas bore towards women and blacks until very recent times.”
-Robert Epstein, author of The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult In Every Teen
Most of this show was my original attempt to begin the Kids Are Not Defective Series, but it just turned into a rant about the mainstream media.
A couple months ago I decided to watch a little cable news. MSNBC to be precise. They were running a story/series called “V Is For…Violence.” It focused on the inability of adolescents to handle the stimulation they get from the technology of today.
From Scientific American:
Bully or Victim? More Similar Than We Might Think
Bowling For Columbine
Michael Moore interviews Marilyn Manson
The case against adolescence: rediscovering the adult in every teen
By Robert Epstein