March 2018

Monday, 5 March 2018

The last joke is Tide Pods

Kaitlyn Tiffany: “But the fact that grown-ups have become this cripplingly fascinated with and horrified by the idea of the nation’s teens eating Tide Pods also speaks to one of the most alarming facts about life in 2018, which is that we live in a country where the ‘adults’ seem mentally incapable of recognizing the fact that the kids are in fact doing much, much better than they are. Kids are more literate in irony, which is sad for them, but they are also more information literate, more aware of where they are in space at any given point in time online, and more educated than any previous generation about the way ideas spread and how and where they can be trusted.”