So here comes David Brooks to the rescue, following up last month's story on human capital with a thoughtful NY Times Op-Ed piece on MySpace ("Bondage and Bonding Online"). He concludes with a split decision:
- Today's young people are happy, wholesome, and amazingly community-minded, and the online smut is just a way of demarcating an adult-free social space.
- Today's prolonged adolescents are filled with earnest desires for meaningful contact, but live in a culture that has provided them with no vocabulary to create these sorts of bonds except through cleavage and vodka.
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