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Smells Like Teen Spirit

Bureau of Lost Culture

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The End of Adolescence

After the Second World War, suddenly there's this kind of extenuation of adolescence. And then as the decades go on, the point of which the teenage or adolescent ends in becoming that gets further and further away from your birth. Is there a sense that the classic counterculture that we talk about, that it did sort of run out of steam? The change you're talking about is really connected to the rise of the Internet. It made the distribution of trends so much quicker. So when a new scene arrived, bam,. it was fully formed and, you know, bam, it was there and everything like that.

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