Ethics

Craig Ferguson on Youth and Stupidity

By Ed Brayton

Here's a very amusing little rant by Craig Ferguson -- who is, by the way, the funniest of the five late night talk show hosts right now, and by a fairly wide margin -- about how marketing led to an obsession with youth and a corresponding focus on stupidity. There's more than a kernel of truth to what he has to say. Of course, I never did like kids even when I was one. My father assures me that my first spoken words were, "goddamn kids these days."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 01, 2009 (boomark / email).