favorite shows, games, and social interactions lie the prescriptions for us to cope with cultural change. The oldest of these screenagers have already developed into fledgling filmmakers, computer programmers, and social activists, whose world views are beginning to have a felt and, I would argue, positive affect on our cultural values.
So please let us suspend, for the time being, our grown-up function as role models and educators of our nation's youth. Rather than focussing on how we, as adults, should inform our children's activities with educational tidbits for their better development, let's appreciate the natural adaptive skills demonstrated by our kids, and look to them for answers to some of our own problems adapting to post-modernity. Kids are our test sample -- our advance scouts. They are, already, the thing that we must become.
That is, if in fact we choose to carry on beyond the end of our world, into theirs.
