Who will call them phonies now that Salinger is gone?

There was a piece in the Times last June suggesting that students
today don't go for Catcher in the Rye:
Ms. Feinberg recalled one 15-year-old boy from Long Island who told her: “Oh, we all hated Holden in my class. We just wanted to tell him, ‘Shut up and take your Prozac.’ ”

That is a worry.  Yes, it was a fancy prep school, white
boy, etc., but to deny the universality of this bit of great art -- located in a specific subject but accessible with guidance to anyone --  is to deny the value of literature altogether.  More to the point, I worry that teens don't agree with Holden that everyone is a phony, or perhaps they agree but they're fine with that.  They do trust people over 30.  That means there is no energy for a revolution, no chance for Jeffersonian, generational renewal.