Did you read the whole article? The author sounds pretty sick of that stuff, too. For example: "The book's ultimate doomsday scenario -- of a dull and self-a

Did you read the whole article? The author sounds pretty sick of that stuff, too. For example: "The book's ultimate doomsday scenario -- of a dull and self-absorbed new generation of citizens falling prey to demagoguery and brazen power grabs -- seems at once overblown (witness, for example, this election season's youth reengagement in politics) and also yesterday's news (haven't we always been perilously close to this, if not already suffering from it?)."