Displaced Emotions: The Insensibility of Pop/Punk Youth

The failure of empathy, the insensitivity, of young groovers from two postwar generations is a condition that psychologists have identified as ‘desensitisation’ arising from progressively dulled responses to the violent content of media that include TV, video games, comic books and movies.

Three examples of youth’s post-war insensitivity can be seen in the offence caused to WW2 survivors by such unthinking flippancies as these:

      Spandau Ballet

      Joy Division

and the absurdity of

      Rockin’ Pneumonia

Look behind the seductive euphonies of these pop couplings and you’ll discover inhumanity, degradation and unspeakable horror and suffering.

Teenage angst or teenage fatuity? You choose.

Also see
http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/anti-antihero-heroine-takes-heat-to.html