Electric Agora (archive)

Tag: Teenagers

  • Twenty-Five Things Young People Used to Understand

    by Daniel A. Kaufman ____ My “Twenty-Five Things Everyone Used to Understand” was a minor hit, so here are twenty-five things young people used to understand. The point is to catalogue what would have been the common understanding among most young people of my era (the 1970’s and 80’s) regarding the realities of life; things…

  • I Want My MTV!

    by Daniel A. Kaufman ____ Jay Jeffers (The Partially Examined Life) and I discuss the beginnings of MTV and our recollections of it, on this 40th anniversary of the music channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to-EsZZQcSk&ab_channel=ElectricAgora 3:40 – Aug 1 marks the 40th Anniversary of the launching of MTV in its “original iteration.” 6:20 – How Jay and Dan…

  • Three Boys and a Hole in a Fence

    by Daniel A. Kaufman These last few days, I have been in NY – Long Island to be precise – staying with my mother, while my father is traveling.  This has become something of a ritual.  My parents are elderly – my father will be ninety in June and my mother just turned eighty-six, last…