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To: Mr. Silverback
"Manufacturers and advertisers are participating in the phenomenon of "kids getting older younger."

This is the biggest lie of them all. This is the one the left and, of course, advertisers use to corrupt children. These children are not growing older faster. They are infantilized to the point where they are not only in childhood and adolescence longer, but they are not inculcated with a sense of personal responsibility or their duties as citizens. They are being used by unscrupulous, corrupt people to make a buck by debasing an entire culture.

In the past, adolescents were adults by graduation. In a more distant past, kings and warriors, captains of sailing ships, traders, merchants, explorers and thinkers were in their early twenties. Life spans are longer, education is more available but there is no excuse to have adults in their late teens and early twenties acting like children and children in their very young years dressing like adults and exposed to things that are best left to adults who are sufficiently "grownup" mentally and spiritually enough to make decisions on how to dress and act appropriately.
17 posted on 11/29/2003 5:53:56 AM PST by OpusatFR (If you don't like our laws, live in accordance with our laws, and believe in our way of life: leave)
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To: OpusatFR
"In the past, adolescents were adults by graduation."

Amen, in my youth most sixteen year olds were more mature than the twenty six year olds I see now. I see young people now depending on their parents at an age when they used to have teenagers of their own.
18 posted on 11/29/2003 6:42:59 AM PST by RipSawyer (Mercy on a pore boy lemme have a dollar bill!)
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