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“The Story of the Noughties is more than just the history of the last 10 years,” the introduction promised. “It tells us where the 21st century itself is heading.”
What followed was a long and entertaining essay on the inexorable rise of youth culture since the turn of the millennium. Not the kind of old-fashioned youth culture that actually involves young people, you understand. No, this was youth as enjoyed by those unwilling to relinquish it until they’re well into their forties, fifties and even sixties.
The kind of youth exemplified by parents who lap up Harry Potter books more gleefully than their children, elderly men in leathers zooming about on Harley-Davidsons, and Gordon Brown telling us how much he loves the Arctic Monkeys.
It could be argued that this obsession with youth was engendered a lot further back (in the 1960s for instance) than the very recent past. But the theory put forward here was that, like so much else, it was all Tony Blair’s fault. It was he who, back in the mid-1990s, set out his dream that Britain would be “a young country” again.
It seems we took him rather too literally, transforming Britain into a land where you could grow old but never grow up.
The Noughties became the decade of the childish adult, or “kidult”; of those who tell you they’re in “middle youth”, not middle age; of Botox and cosmetic surgery; of the so-called flight from maturity. Or as contributor Will Self described it pithily: of “the knicker elastic of adolescence being stretched and stretched until it snaps in a sad and sagging middle-aged face.”
For those of us tempted, at times, to cling desperately to a youth that’s long past its sell-by date, there was much here to raise a blush or two.
As for the future, though, The Story of the Noughties never quite delivered on its promise to tell us where the new century is heading, other than to predict that the rise of the internet and social networking are likely to have a profound impact on all our lives."
The Telegraph, 05 Jan 2010
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