American Immaturity: How We Grow Up After We Grow Old
March 3, 2012 at 8:40 pm | Posted in Pajamas Media | 1 CommentTags: Culture, Immaturity, Maturity, PJ Media, Teenagers, Tucker Max, Youth
by Walter Hudson – PJ Media – March 3, 2012
EXCERPT:
At the age of thirty-five, the author of such literary classics as I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell and Assholes Finish First has had something of an epiphany regarding the licentious lifestyle which informed his New York Times-bestselling tomes. As the years have worn on and life taken its toll, Tucker Max has conceded that copious sex and booze do not lead to happiness. Forbes’ Michael Ellsberg explains:
… this most public of “I-don’t-wanna-grow-up” males is in fact now in the midst of a serious, intentional and devoted period of cleaning up and growing up.
He is changing his ways of the past, and—gasp!—becoming a mature adult male, one is who seeking a committed, long-term relationship, leading to marriage, with an intelligent, substantive, accomplished woman.
The full account of Tucker’s rite of passage from reckless detachment to sober insight is well worth the read. What it speaks to, perhaps unintentionally, is the very nature of maturity.
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I’ve read a lot about Tucker Max, but never any of his works. I think that entire gimmick of partying, boozing and sleeping with random women speaks to that wild side of us we wish we could explore. If you think about it, it’s the reason Wiseguy/Goodfellas was so successful; it took you by the hand through the gangster lifestyle to its maximum, horribly paranoid consequences.
If you think about it, this revelation Mr. Max had is a lot like that. After showing us all the glamour, the fun along with the crap, he’s showing us maybe it’s not worth it in the long run after all.
Comment by Joe Pineda— March 3, 2012 #