Innocent Joy vs the Herd Mentality

[Drtooth]

people are forced to grow up too fast. The media makes people who still have some child like joy look like idiots who should be ridiculed. that said, people want acceptance so they just jump on the bandwagaon and train themselves to like what is in and convince themselves they are too old for something.

It's a sad state of affairs that people in their 20's and 30's care more about their childhood (enough to think any remake, comeback, or Family Guy cutaway from the first season is "raping" it), when kids don't even want theirs. I've said it before... you want to grow up when a year passes like a glacier, but you sure as heck don't want to go to bed 26 and wake up 36! Rushing adulthood sort of... well sort of jinxing things to come on too fast.

What are kids going to remember nostalgically now when everyone, even the media wants them to stop watching cartoons and watch "adult" stuff... that ranges from juvenile pop star based family sitcoms to reality smut. I'd HATE to be someone that looks back at Jersey Shore like a great distant memory.

That said, I see more and more people of varying ages wearing Sesame shirts. So take that as you will.

 

[CensoredAlso]

It's a sad state of affairs that people in their 20's and 30's care more about their childhood (enough to think any remake, comeback, or Family Guy cutaway from the first season is "raping" it), when kids don't even want theirs.

That's normal though, it's part of developing as a human being. As a kid you yearn to be a grown up, and then once you finally make it to adulthood and see how stressful it is, you see your childhood with a more positive perspective.

So it's not really sad, it's just part of being human.

I'd HATE to be someone that looks back at Jersey Shore like a great distant memory.

I know what you mean, but I think most people will just be embarrassed looking back, lol.

 

[newsmanfan]

Thanks guys...much to chew on...

Maybe I'm just experiencing childhood in reverse. As a little kid, most of my friends were my parents' friends from their high school and college days. Seldom did I encounter an actual peer of my age group who liked what I liked, which I never understood. Now at 40, I have a deeper appreciation for simple pleasures. (No, I'm not gonna go off on how I attained wisdom or some nonsense. I'm as much an idiot as I ever was.) But I agree with Sgt Floyd and Drtooth: today's kids do seem determined to be teens as young children, and adults as teens, and yes, young adults in particular seem very close-minded about new experiences.

Makes me glad I realized I'd never make a good parent, and never went that route...but I wonder: is there any way to reverse the trend? Do you think kids will, as they age, realize they missed out on a lot by being so obsessed with "what's cool right this second", and expand their views and interests? Or is this another lost generation headed right for the excess and status-craze of the '80s again?

 

[Starchamberfall]

I was sad to hear this, and surprised. I live pretty much in the wilderness, so...I ain't up on a lot of things.

I think that some people do not know they have something very special inside them: if they did, they would also see it in you, and then easily accept your habits.

I know that twenty-five years ago a lot of things - including homosexuality - to say nothing of puppet-love! - often went down much more easily, there was more acceptance, less uptightness, at least around here. Maybe we are all taking less love for ourselves in, and responding accordingly to others. Sometimes this seems to be.

I thought the cool-barrier for original Sesame Street was pretty well brought down by John Lennon, I see I was wrong. (I know this must have been posted already but... Ringo's tribute to the band-mates he had just said goodbye to, with a clear reference to John's T.V. viewing habits in 1970

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoQjL9RIFwQ

While we're here...was any attention paid to this song about John, by Yoko, on his anniversary of death?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9SlsG2dSU

So pretty! This would have been PERFECT as a musical segment on the Muppet Show!

John "played the game of life with his heart" (Walking on Thin Ice). That is essential to happiness, and always brings trouble.