Not only because it is his generation, but because of the commonly held assumption that young people today, having left religious institutions and traditional behaviour behind, have also dropped spiritual questions by the wayside as we pursued music, tattoos, piercings, sensuality, and cyberspace. Beaudoin is out to prove otherwise. He believes that theology is always found and created within culture, even though it points beyond language and cultural boundaries. The reason most people haven't seen the spiritual hunger in Gen X is because they've been looking at us with the clues and codes of their own generation's culture. It's hard to step outside the patterns and symbols of thought you're brought up with, but thankfully, Beaudoin is still under 30.
Experience is key.
Suffering has a religious dimension. It's really fascinating and enlightening, even to someone like me who thinks about this stuff way more than the average 20-something. I was introduced to literally hundreds of new ways to think about how I interact with pop culture, and how I integrate Christ with my pop culture life. The downside for most readers will be that the book was probably something his master's thesis, because it's written in that scholarly style, with tons of quotes, references to history, theology, and the Bible in addition to pop culture. He does a much better job at keeping his scholasticism interesting than most.