Posted on 03/12/2019 2:15:18 PM PDT by Borges
If millennials are currently aged between the ages of 22 and 36, I am one, albeit somewhere in the upper echelons – and I am also a publisher. And so I note with particular interest when people who are usually not millennials and don’t work in publishing share their view that Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita would never be published now because of awful young people like me. Not in a million years, they say. Highly unlikely, at a push.
It’s a view that pops up with surprising frequency. In the Spectator this week, Rachel Johnson writes that Lolita would be stuck on the slush pile if Nabokov had written it now, casting doubt over whether the classic would even be placed on curriculums any more.
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What is with all the recent articles Millennial bashing?
The more the better!
I would bet it would sell as a video game.
Please tell me there’s not a Lolita app already?
I can’t really even get mad at them. Most of these kids never stood a chance.
“What is with all the recent articles Millennial bashing?”
I’m a Millennial and I think they’re all justified!
If it was a story about an older man and an underage male, it would not only get published, they’d make a movie and it would get the oscar.
It’s the bookend to all the Millennial stuff complaining about Boomers.
Together we have a matched set of intergenerational conflict.
My theory is that with smaller families parents and kids are more invested in, and motivated to more put up with, their own intergenerational family members. Then they displace their natural, suppressed resentments by complaining about the other generation in general.
I don’t like these types of articles because they are a good way to create division by generalizing characteristics on an entire group of people like mass astrology. Just like you see people ranting about “Boomers sold the country out”. Which is why I’m sure the media keeps printing these articles.
No, but I used to have an X-rated video game.
The interactivity was as you’d expect.
I well imagine that such an App exists.
I had hoped Wii would have developed a pole dancing attachment, for the wife...
Pornographic video games are actually not quite the market you may expect. They actually aren’t that big because if you got an AO (Adults Only which is essentially X Rated for games) most mass retailers wouldn’t distribute it the longest time. There’s also a lot of vestigial moralism about them which has lead to some being outright banned for their content that you don’t see in film or books anymore.
Stanley Kubrick directed the first one, which starred James Mason, Sue Lyons, Peter Sellers and Shelly Winters.
The second one, which hewed more closely to the book, was made for cable TV by HBO. It starred Jeremy Irons.
The 2nd version was a humorless slog that missed the spirit of the novel by a mile.
We, as a society, simultaneously suppress depictions of sexuality while telling ourselves how enlightened we have become, as ‘shacking up’ becomes the norm, hardly anybody gets married, and ‘hooking up’ is a euphemism for casual sex.
Were we better off being less offended and more inhibited personally?
Together we have a matched set of intergenerational conflict.
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Cultural Marxism pushes for dividing people into groups.
Great point.
“Loose talk in the classroom
To hurt they try and try
Strong words in the staffroom
The accusations fly”
“It’s no use, he sees her
He starts to shake and cough
Just like the old man in
That book by Nabakov”
h/t Gordon Sumner
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