Adult Themes: Rewriting the Rules of Adulthood

by Kate Crawford

Pan Macmillan Australia

384 pages, $32.95

by David Pullar

Crawford's greatest contribution to the debate on the decline of modern civilisation is her call for a reasoned, well-developed ethics of adulthood, rather than the shallow focus on external signifiers.

This sounds really interesting; finally someone’s talking about the bigger picture of adulthood rather than the usual generational sniping-from-the-roof.

Although I have to admit I watch Big Brother for the perverse interest in watching a voluntary prison: all that confined space, torturing games and mindless conversation? Who would ever get a better insight into an opt-in version of the Big House?

Comment by Michael from Melbourne — December 11, 2006 @ 4:02 pm

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