The Death of the Grown-Up

Diana WestseesaUSfilled withmiddle-ageguysplaying air guitar andthinks "No wonder we can'tstopIslamic terrorism."Shesees Moms Who Mosh and wonders"Is there a singleadult leftanywhere?" But,the grown-ups are all gone. The disease that killed themwas incubated in the sixties to a rock-and-roll score,took holdin theseventieswiththe helpof multicultralismandleftuswith a nation of eternal adolescents who can'tdecide between "good" and "bad", a generation who can't say "no".From the inability to nix a sixteen year-old's requestfor Marilyn Manson concert tickets tooffering adolescentsparentally-funded motel roomson prom night to rationalizingmurderous actsof Islamic suicide bombers withplatitudes of cultural equivalence,West seesus on a slippery slope that's lead to a time when America has forgotten its place in the world.In The Death of theGrown-Up Diana Westservesupaprovocative critique of ourdangerously indecisiveworldleavened withhumor and shot through with insight.