21. We live in a culture where there are (in both relative & absolute terms) more artists than ever before, clamoring for attention.
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22. Scott is eloquent on this point: "We have more stories, pictures and arguments than we know what to do with,"
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23. "...and each one of them presses on our attention with a claim of uniqueness, a demand to be recognized as special."
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24. In a society of millions of artists, the critic (i.e. Scott) can easily feel beleaguered: only adult in nation of children.
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24b Problem of how criticism deals with genuine cultural democracy (i.e. millions of artists) has yet to be solved. Scott should write on it
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25. Other way to look at End of Adulthood is through reverse prism: it's actually the Disappearance of Childhood (as per Neil Postman)
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26. As per Postman, childhood as special protected time a fairly recent development, a product of Gutenberg era which is now ending.
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27. Grim & gritty superhero comics & movies aren't children encroaching on adulthood but adults poaching on childhood.
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28. Postman's Disappearance of Childhood has advantage over Scott's piece of being more grounded in social history & McLuhanite theory.
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29. To return to gender analysis I skimmed over earlier: as per Scott genuine adulthood seems province of women alone.
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30. Women have worst of both worlds: must bear the burden of adulthood without enjoying the privileges of patriarchs.
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31. Social role bestowed on mothers/wives as figures who say no to instinctual desire is really poisonous.
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32. I wonder if figure of MILF isn't way to incorporate even motherhood into perpetual adolescence.
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