The primary job of every generation is to horrify the generations that came before. But what happens when a generation’s most objectionable trait is its inability to manufacture any controversy at all?
Perhaps this weekend’s MTV Music Video Awards ceremony is an inapt vehicle for taking the temperature of Generation Z, given that many youngsters don’t know what “MTV,” “music videos,” or even “television” is. But the event, ostensibly put on to reflect the current state of the music business, instead exposed just how boring and turgid popular culture has become.
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