[ SECRET POST #1562 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1562 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[ashley marquardt (from livejournal.com)]

Maybe that's a good thing. C.S. Lewis said this quote that I adore that's "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." maybe we're finally getting it. ^_^

[xanykaos.livejournal.com]

Well, yes and no.

I mean, I do love that quote, don't get me wrong, but maybe we need a few extra words, because the thing is, as a society, we've become very childish. We demand things our way, special treatment, instant whatever. We are incapable of not being entertained every milli-second (that what iPhones and iPads are for!). There's a couple of books that've come through (I never got to read more than a bit before they went back out again) on the subject, but it's not a stretch to say that with the availability of childish things and the lack of stigma on the more mainstream things (say, facebook games) that time-wasting schlock once had, we as a country don't have the same work-ethic that we had, say, fifty years ago.

Naturally, there are other contributing factors. And I say this as someone who's got a few Transformers, a tiny Boba Fett, and a Donald Duck Darth Maul glaring at me from my desk--someone who has fully subscribed into the "I'm an adult and now I can have my toys!" lifestyle (I always liked the MacHall variant of "I put away childish things...but I unpacked most of them when I got there"). But a decade ago, guys would've gotten together to shoot hoops or play a pick-up game of football--now we gather 'round the Wii. Friends would talk about their gardens, or a hobby that produced something--now we've got Farmville updates. Hell, I know more about the politics of the DC Universe than I do about the politics of the real world. And while I'm grateful that I live in a time where that's not the Horrible Thing that it would've been in the past (and a time where being a geek is more widely accepted), I feel like it's contributing to the entropy of American society.

Or something. I should probably go to bed.

[ashley marquardt (from livejournal.com)]

I think there's a difference, though, between "having childish things" and trying to be a child in an adult's body. You can embrace your childish things, like toys and so on, but when you act like a child while an adult, that's not right..

Which books? (I'm honestly curious,)

Is that from being "childish", though? Or from a combination of acting immature about something that's popular, instead of acting mature?