The Current Era, Modern Times. Accelerating through history, following the Stone Age, the Iron Age, the Bronze Age, &cetera, all the way up to the furious and aborted Information Age, we arrive at the Teen Age, characterized by an obsession with sex and change. It’s not just that the most powerful economic force on the planet is the 12 to 21-year-old demographic, it’s that everyone wants to be that age, stay that age, dress like that age, only with more cash and no zits. Everything is newer faster in the Teen Age. Everything is over quicker. Technology drives games and pornography, not boardrooms and weapons. Society is oriented towards that perpetual age of deniable responsibility, perpetual nostalgia. Everything that happened when you were a kid can be found on a T-shirt. Adolescent girls are the sex ideal. Music is pop, pop is a verb, pop is a soda, pop is what you do to put a cap in someone. Violence without consequence, constant renewal. Welcome to the Teen Age.