Posted on 08/05/2004 7:00:53 PM PDT by O.C. - Old Cracker
While certainly not limited to the 20-30 something crowd, viewers of South Park tend to be the latchkey offspring of the infamous Baby Boomers. These children of MTV and video games have extremely limited attention spans and as a result are always moving from one experience to the next in hopes of finding fulfillment. Unfortunately, all they are finding in South Park is a wasteland.
Ever see the SP "Fun With Weapons"? Best parody of Japanimation I have ever seen.
If it's corrupting, then keep on corrupting me. I'm fine, thanks, and no, I'd not like to move to Spain.
"Yeah, a little."
"Oh... s***, you guys are in trouble. We're outta here." Good stuff.
If I were drinking, you'd owe me a new keyboard.
No, but you, and anyone void of a sense of humor and enlightenment, like you, should be. (Take your pick, banned and/or deported to Spain).
I think O.C. - Old Cracker should be banned and deported to SPAIN!
Family Guy rip-off
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Take care!
To quote the everwise Freelance Commercial Writing Guru, Peter Bowerman:
"Use every advantage you have."
You name your computer??
Right you are, Stew.
Cranky and lacking a sense of humor does not equal child molester. You're way out of line. Knock it off.
Not if it's a suppository.
You know, I may bite the bullet and watch this show, just so I have a frame of reference with my brothers. They're both fans and are 30 this year...ripe for conservatism.
"For evidence of this emerging generation gap, take a look at a Fortune magazine survey earlier this year asking employed twentysomethings if they would ever "like to be like" Baby Boomers. Four out of five say no. Peruse recent surveys asking college students what they think of various Boomer-sanctioned moral crusades--everything from "family values" to the "New Age movement." By overwhelming margins, they either disapprove or are remarkably indifferent. Recall the furious Thirteener-penned responses that appeared just after the media's celebration of the twentieth anniversary of Woodstock, or after the recent turn away from yuppie-style consumption ("Let the self-satisfied, self-appointed, selfrighteous baby-boomers be the first to practice the new austerity they have been preaching of late," Mark Featherman announced in a New York Times essay titled "The 80's Party Is Over")."
"Remember, these are the young people who cast their first votes during the 1980s, for the party (Republican) and the generation (of Reagan and Bush) that Boomers at like age loved to excoriate. More recently the end of the Cold War and the "Bush recession" have persuaded Thirteeners to go along with an all-Boomer Democratic ticket. But fortysomething politicians can hardly rest easy. This latest turn in what Coupland calls the "microallegiances" of today's young people also reflects a toxic reaction to what Boomers have done to the other party (even right-wing Thirteeners shuddered to hear the Quayle and Quayle "values" preaching) and a vehement backlash against the status quo (pre-election opinion polls showed Ross Perot's strongest support coming from under-thirty voters). Whatever economic and cultural alienation Thirteeners feel over the next decade--and they will feel plenty--will inevitably get translated into hostility toward the new generation in power."
"If being a resented older generation is a novel experience for Boomers, and if life on the short end feels ruinous to Thirteeners, each group can take a measure of solace in the repeating generational rhythms of American history. About every eighty or ninety years America has experienced this kind of generation gap between selfrighteous neopuritans entering midlife and nomadic survivalists just coming of age."
"In them lies much of the doubt, distress, and endangered dream of late-twentieth-century America. As a group they aren't what older people ever wanted but rather what they themselves know they need to be: pragmatic, quick, sharp-eyed, able to step outside themselves and understand how the world really works. From the Thirteener vantage point, America's greatest need these days is to clear out the underbrush of name-calling and ideology so that simple things can work again. Others don't yet see it, but today's young people are beginning to realize that their upbringing has endowed them with a street sense and pragmatism their eiders lack. Many admit they are a bad generation-but so, too, do they suspect that they are a necessary generation for a society in dire need of survival lessons.. "
"When they look into the future, they see a much bleaker vision than any of today's older generations ever saw in their own youth. Polls show that Thirteeners believe it will be much harder for them to get ahead than it was for their parents--and that they are overwhelmingly pessimistic about the long-term fate of their generation and nation. They sense that they're the clean-up crew, that their role in history will be sacrificial--that whatever comeuppance America has to face, they'll bear more than their share of the burden. It's a new twist, and not a happy one, on the American Dream."
"Trace the life cycle to date of Americans born in 1961. They were among the first babies people took pills not to have. During the 1967 Summer of Love they were the kindergartners who paid the price for America's new divorce epidemic. In 1970 they were fourth-graders trying to learn arithmetic amid the chaos of open classrooms and New Math curricula. In 1973 they were the bell-bottomed sixth-graders who got their first real-life civics lesson watching the Watergate hearings on TV. Through the late 1970s they were the teenage mail-hoppers who spawned the Valley Girls and other flagrantly nonBoomer youth trends. In 1979 they were the graduating seniors of Carter-era malaise who registered record-low SAT scores and record-high crime and drug-abuse rates."
"But for Thirteeners just growing up, the 1970s meant something very different: an adult world that expressed moral ambivalence where children sought clear answers, that expected children to cope with real-world problems, that hesitated to impose structure on children's behavior, and that demonstrated an amazing (even stupefying) tolerance for the rising torrent of pathology and negativism that engulfed children's daily life."
Yes, we are coarse. We swear and have very earthy humor. But the survival of this Nation depends on what we, as a generation, do over the next two decades. We've not the suave, West Point Lt who got all A's and looks great in shiny shoes. We're the battle hardened sgt who's survived it all and who knows the score. Don't let the cigar and the harsh language fool you. It's only just begun.
Listen to me, O.C. I'm going to ask you a serious question.
Are you insane?
Why do you persist in wasting our time with your endless vanities attacking a (hilarious, right-leaning) cartoon show, and attacking it's fans in broad strokes because you don't like South Park yourself. You seem to be so stodgy, so old, and so uptight that you've reached a level of obsession in your attacks.
You don't care for South Park personally, yet there are still many freepers here who refuse to take your opinion as Gospel truth. Some of us actually Love this friggin' show. There MUST be a mistake here then, eh O.C.? Why, I guess it's up to Old Cracker to right the wrongs and get SP banned. Somehow he has to save me and the other South Park Republicans from the fires of hell.
Well, gee old man. You might want to chill out before you have a stroke. The truth is that many, many people like to watch SP, many of us actually like to LAUGH, and we won't stop because you (and your inflated sense of importance) don't like it. I'll let you in on a little secret, man. Legislating morality as you see it isn't at all compatible with the belief in personal freedom and responsibility conservatives are supposed to stand for. When we stand for personal property freedoms and 2nd Amendment gun ownership, we are honoring man's right to decide his lifestyle for himself, without the repressive red tape and incompetent interference of the federal government. Therefore, it never fails to stun me how some of you Moral-Majority conservatives can't sense the hypocracy of your actions when you attempt to regulate what I can see or hear. Who the hell gave you the right?
You FCC/Fallwell/"benevolent" dictatorship-types really give my Republican Party a bad name sometimes. May the day come when we sweep your sorry asses out of the Republican Party and into the Church basement where you belong.
Mr. Hankey the Christmas Pooh. we have one, a little plastic Mr. Hankey on a key chain.
I know that I have a reduced attention span and all, but was there supposed to be an article attached to this post? Maybe I missed it. I'll go back and read it again, just to make sure.
Watch it! My (young and lovely) wife used to watch Matlock every day when it was on TBS at noon! Probably too racy for OC.
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