"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
America is full of Peter Pan wanabe’s...
In the olden days, people older than 14 or 14 were adults and got married.
Isaac Newton invented calculus at age 20.
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However, a society enslaved to perpetual childhood isn't one that solves many problems. In fact, it is one that requires some form of paternalism to survive, be it technological, governmental, or simple isolation; children don't fare well when exposed to the real world's demands. And there's always a price to be paid for eternal adolescence. Think Eloi from Wells' Time Machine.
She’s right of course; or should I say, “She’s Right.”
The ‘60s marked the onset of the first organized all-out assault on maturity, responsibility, and authority in the history of mankind.
The aptly-named “children of the ‘60s,” balding and greying though they are, have maintained their irrational fear of anyone telling them “No!” and manifest this as a refusal to make a value judgment of any sort.
Such as saying that democracy is preferable to dictatorship, or that Christian values are preferable to the murderous degenerate creed of the muslims.
But all too often we’ve allowed these cases of arrested-development to rise to positions of authority in our schools and in our governments, where they can poison the minds of our children, and subvert our institutions.
The baby-boomers are today’s grandparents. So now we have 3 generations of “MEMEME” and everyone wants to be the cool generation. It is pitiful to watch. Picture the grandfather, braided grey hair down to his waist, wearing Grateful Dead t-shirts and listening to Pink Floyd, probably still one toke over the line. Just how does a kid of 12 go to his grandfather for wisdom and advice? No, there are no more grown-ups. Anyone old enough to have heard “tune in, turn on, and drop out” probably did. And they are in charge of the memories to pass on to future generations? Hell, they were too stoned to remember anything of value.
If we think things are bad now, just wait until it is compulsory to start your toddler to public school! Besides dumbing down the population, they are trying to annihilate the family. Let them pass national health care and we are all slaves!
I have a personal theory that marijuana use causes “arrested development.” An emotionally mature 16 year old is unaffected, but an immature 19 year old is emotionally “frozen” until long after marijuana use is stopped. Once frozen, more effort is required to emotionally mature.
OK, it’s just a theory....
Everything these days is “for the children”, so why shouldn’t adults act like kids?
Some other signs that she’s right are the many adults who, for a few decades now, want children and their children’s friends to call them by their first name, and not Mr. or Mrs., no salutations that acknowledge age or generational difference.
Another is parents who want to be a part of, or intrude into many of their kids activities. I was surprised to learn that many places most parents go (and are allowed to go) and hang around junior/senior proms. They just have to be there to share, or intrude upon their kids’ big events.
And the bizarre cases where some mothers dress of the style of their teen daughters.
Great post.
I don’t think that fact that people are in school longer and are on their own at a later age is a problem, but it’s how people act once they’re on their own and should be assuming the role of adults in American society. All too many still want to be one of the kids.
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Good thread, kids!
What we have here is a situation where all the hippies who avoided the draft in the 60s by staying in liberal arts colleges studying nothing have now become the teachers and educators class in America and are instilling their PC and pinko values on our children, while those who served in the armed forces and became businessmen and professionals are now having their morals and values eroded by these same elitist educators and morally degenerate offal.