This is actually a brilliant observation, though it would have been more effective but for the idiotic laugh track. He’s exactly correct that society used to value age, experience and intelligence until the 1960’s blew those apart and led to the dumbing-down of our culture.
Though Ferguson said it was an innocent advertising strategy which provided the initial impetus. We think it was a little more sinister than that, as there is evidence to suggest much of the 1960’s counterculture movement was funded by the KGB, but otherwise Ferguson has a good handle on what the effect of deifying youth and imbecility has been…
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