{"id":2946,"date":"2010-01-21T07:29:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T12:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2946"},"modified":"2010-01-21T07:29:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T12:29:39","slug":"repostget-a-life-holden-caulfield-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/21\/repostget-a-life-holden-caulfield-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Get a Life, Holden Caulfield &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But Holden won over the young, especially the 1960s generation who saw themselves in the disaffected preppy, according to the cultural critic Morris Dickstein. <strong>\u201cThe skepticism, the belief in the purity of the soul against the tawdry, trashy culture plays very well in the counterculture and post-counterculture generation,\u201d<\/strong> said Mr. Dickstein, who teaches at the Graduate Center of the University of the City of New York. Today, <strong>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say we have a more gullible youth culture, but it may be more of a joining or togetherness culture.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The culture is also more competitive. These days, teenagers seem more interested in getting into Harvard than in flunking out of Pencey Prep.<\/strong> Young people, with their compulsive text-messaging and hyperactive pop culture metabolism, are more enchanted by wide-eyed, quidditch-playing Harry Potter of Hogwarts than by the smirking manager of Pencey\u2019s fencing team (who was lame enough to lose the team\u2019s equipment on the subway, after all).<strong> Today\u2019s pop culture heroes, it seems, are the nerds who conquer the world \u2014 like Harry \u2014 not the beautiful losers who reject it.<\/strong><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/21\/weekinreview\/21schuessler.html?_r=2&amp;ref=books\">Get a Life, Holden Caulfield &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Holden won over the young, especially the 1960s generation who saw themselves in the disaffected preppy, according to the cultural critic Morris Dickstein. \u201cThe skepticism, the belief in the purity of the soul against the tawdry, trashy culture plays very well in the counterculture and post-counterculture generation,\u201d said Mr. Dickstein, who teaches at the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/21\/repostget-a-life-holden-caulfield-nytimes-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Get a Life, Holden Caulfield &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}