MAD pretty much set a quizzical attitude to my basic thought processes.
If everything was as satirical as MAD was proposing (and I was an extremely fertile and receptive 13 or 14 year old) ... then the world was worth watching and knowing.
There were no computers then, just newspapers, TIME, my fathers Kiplinger .. etc., but it was all fascinating reading for me.
My wife came from rural Pa but loved the (common among girls at the time) imaginative love and romance first in Barbie, then in Harlequin and later longer novels
Marriage and work took away reading time, but not the desire and love of it.
Mostly we loved the exploration of our own imaginations.
Our children had their imaginations excised almost at birth with modern music making toys, and too early, hellivision.
I played in the dirt with my friends, sticks were guns and cars and a lot of 'em put together was a stockade and .... hours later, we realized we were hungry so we went home ... no one called us.
THAT America is gone ... and so is reading and using the imagination God gives His creation.
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“Mostly we loved the exploration of our own imaginations. Our children had their imaginations excised almost at birth with modern music making toys, and too early, hellivision.”
That’s the issue with my youngest; we need to work harder on that.
“I played in the dirt with my friends, sticks were guns and cars and a lot of ‘em put together was a stockade and .... hours later, we realized we were hungry so we went home ... no one called us.”
Same here; growing up on the edge of the Meadowlands here in northern NJ, there was no shortage of open spaces (in an otherwise congested area), illegal dumping to provide lumber, etc.
“THAT America is gone ... and so is reading and using the imagination God gives His creation.”
My other sons have found some other kids with a similar sense of adventure, who also appreciate just kicking a soccer ball around. They are more “foreign” than my childhood friends, but in some ways the same...