Once upon a time, boys and girls grew up and set aside
childish things. Nowadays, moms and dads skateboard alongside their
kids and download the latest pop-song ringtones. Captains of
industry pose for the cover of BusinessWeek holding Super Soakers.
The average age of video game players is twenty-nine and rising.
Top chefs develop recipes for Easy-Bake Ovens. Disney World is the
world’s top adult vacation destination that’s adults without
kids. And young people delay marriage and childbirth longer than
ever in part to keep family obligations from interfering with their
fun fun fun.
Christopher Noxon has coined a word for this new breed of
grown-up: rejuveniles. And as a self-confessed rejuvenile, he’s a
sympathetic yet critical guide to this bright and shiny world of
people who see growing up as “winding down”—exchanging a life of
playful flexibility for anxious days tending lawns and mutual
funds.
In Rejuvenile, Noxon explores the historical roots of today’s
rejuveniles hint: all roads lead to Peter Pan, the “toyification”
of practical devices car cuteness is at an all-time high, and the
new gospel of play. He talks to parents who love cartoons more than
their children do, twenty-somethings who live happily with their
parents, and grown-ups who evangelize on behalf of all-ages tag and
Legos. And he takes on the “Harrumphing Codgers,” who see the
rejuvenile as a threat to the social order.
Noxon tempers stories of his and others’ rejuvenile tendencies
with cautionary notes about “lost souls whose taste for childish
things is creepy at best.” Exhibit A: Michael Jackson. On
balance, though, he sees rejuveniles as optimists and capital-R
Romantics, people driven by a desire “to hold on to the part of
ourselves that feels the most genuinely human. We believe in play,
in make believe, in learning, in naps. And in a time of deep
uncertainty, we trust that this deeper, more adaptable part of
ourselves is our best tool of survival.”
Fresh and delightfully contrarian, Rejuvenile makes hilarious
sense of this seismic culture change. It’s essential reading not
only for grown-ups who refuse to “act their age,” but for those who
wish they would just grow up.
From the Hardcover edition.
關於作者：
Christopher Noxon has written for The New York Times Magazine,
Los Angeles Magazine, and Salon. He lives with his wife and three
children in Los Angeles.
From the Hardcover edition.
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