"We should try to sell products to younger people because then they'll buy things their whole life. [...]" [...]
They told the television companies, the movie companies, the record companies. Everybody started targeting the youth, because the youth is the place where you'll be able to SELL things. And what happened was in a strange quark of fate youth began to be celebrated by society in a way that it had never been in any time in human history. Because what used to be celebrated was experience and cleverness but what became valuable was was youth. The quality of youth has made you a consumer. [...] So what happened was youth became more important and became more important... And society started to turn on its head because with the deification of youth - youth has a byproduct. The byproduct of youth is inexperience. By the nature of having youth you don't have any experience, you're too young to have any experience, it's not your fault. But you're young, and you're kind of stupid, so they sell you stuff. [...] The deification of youth evolved and turned into the deification of imbecility. It became fashionable and desirable to be young and stupid.