Tuesday, November 27, 2007

The Death of the Grown-up: A Dangerous Truth by Ericka Andersen

Is America’s apparent weakness in the War on Terror caused by our perpetual adolescence?  So says Washington Times Columnist Diana West in her new book, “The Death of the Grown-up.”

West, who was born and raised in Hollywood (the daughter of a rare conservative Hollywood scriptwriter) claimed she has been “preparing to write this since I was born.”

The average video gamester in America is 30, people as old as 25 are reading young adult-level literature and more adults are watching the cartoon network than CNN. The country seems to be faced with an epidemic of eternal youth or at least the craving for it, as West argues in her book.

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