Have kids always been idealistic dreamers. It seems that kids are becoming less and less innocent at earlier ages. They've seen gunfights, slit people's throats, and blown up countless objects in an attempt to "pwn u". The cartoons these days are all about pretty colors and simpleness so that they attract attention but aren't really funny. They just have a plot and that's it. And do they even teach anything? I know that at the least Tom and Jerry taught me not to mess with Bulldogs or pick on those smaller and/or more clever than myself. But what do the new cartoons teach?
It's annoying. I have hardly any toleration for little children. I'm really kind of bad about it.
I think you're fucking retarded, all of you people (ok maybe not all of you, but most of you; my followers arent fucking retarded. Theyre fine). Goddamn it. Fucking hell. I'm so tired of this bullshit. It is all bull shit. All of it.
I'm so tired of being alone. So tired. I dont hardly even care anymore. Everybody else seems to think that they are bound by their talents. They put too much emphasis on things that don't even matter at all. And they don't care about the other stuff. It's so stupid.
Why am i still trying?
'The innocence of childhood' was a very strong idea in Victorian Britain for sure. Kids were supposed to be sexually innocent and simply obedient to their elders and betters. 'Spare the rod and spoil the child' ran the mantra and many treated their kids to pretty regular punishments of one sort and another when they strayed from this total obedience.
ReplyDeleteBut with the coming of universal education, radio in the post-war years, television and the internet, kids now have access to the big wide world right there at home.
Maybe what you're also saying is that the content of kids tv is not as good as it should be. It'a a bit of an old-fashioned idea in the UK that television should be educational - but I think we can all understand why that might be an idea.
Interesting idea.
I totally agree with you, it's frustrating.
ReplyDeleteBut i like spongebob-spongebob is funny. but not necessarily for kids. Spongebob is educational too.
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Cartoons have always been full of shit. They may be vacuous nonsense now, but the message they used to teach was even worse.
ReplyDeleteWhat has changed is that kids lose their innocence earlier. As the consumer culture permeates deeper and deeper, kids get sold the marketers' dreams younger and younger. Save for the lucky few, they realise too quickly that the promises are hollow and those dreams are unreachable. All this happens while you're still at home and under your parents' thumb. And that's the issue, you see the problems when you're young enough to still be at school, but you're powerless to change anything.
It's a cliche, Maddy, but still. It does get better.