““the biggest problem with youth culture was not the immorality of its content but rather the sort of persons it tended to create: passive consumers with poor critical-thinking skills. Such leaders realized that despite all the apocalyptic rhetoric surrounding young people, they were more likely to be lulled to sleep by the trivial world of teenage social life than to be directly defeated by the devil (let alone the communists). Of the many words swirling around about young people in the 1940s, only this message of the insidious deadening effect of popular culture still rings true. Unfortunately, few at the time heeded this warning. Instead, most remained optimistic that youth culture could be easily tamed or ignored. But in such an atmosphere, it was unlikely that anyone would pay much attention to how youth and their preferences could - and would - dramatically reshape the face of American Christianity.””
