For years we were told ecstasy would ruin our young people. But now those youths are parents, managers, maybe even politicians, and they turned out fine . . . didn’t they?
LURKING ON YouTube is a Prime Time special on the drug ecstasy that was apparently made in 1993 but looks like it was made many fashion eras ago. It is a museum piece – if the museum is a wall painted with black and sweat and populated by hugging, topless, shape-throwing gurners.
Any 18-year-old looking at it would surely find it utterly hilarious, something from the years BC (Before Cool). Yet, it represents the recent youth of a generation that doesn’t like the idea that they are out of it yet. But they are.
The ravers of the early 1990s are the parents, managers, editors, largely responsible adults who will spend the next decade or two at the coalface of a recession. They are, possibly, the politicians, although it’s still hard to imagine that any of our politicians were ever young. And they form, presumably, a large chunk of the one in 20 Irish who say they have taken ecstasy at some point in their lifetimes.
Source: The Irish Times, Shane Hegarty, 08/10/2010
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