phancy (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} phancy) wrote,@ 2006-10-17 22:27:00 |
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
For my birthday (it was the 7th; don't worry if you missed it) Mrs. Phancy bought me The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958 and The Complete Peanuts 1959-1960. I've been enjoying this collection since it began, and immediately devoured 1957-1958. In the beginning of March 1958, Schulz has a short story arc about "kids these days..." The jokes are a bit obvious, mostly because people are still saying the same thing almost 50 years later.
Kids don't have any imagination anymore... Kids watch too much TV... Nobody makes anything by hand anymore... Kids in the past never got into such mischief... Blah blah blah...
I don't think kids change as much as adults who grow up and forget what it was like. I've just turned 32, and I haven't understood teenagers since... well, I didn't understand teenagers much when I was a teenager, but if you're currently under 25 years of age, you're under my cultural radar. I understand younger kids even less. We're simply looking at the world through different glasses. I really hope I don't turn into a cranky adult, unless I get to be cranky and mean like the professor in Futurama.
Good news! It's a suppository!
Click here for the Peanuts strips mentioned: Kids These Days (108KB)
For my birthday (it was the 7th; don't worry if you missed it) Mrs. Phancy bought me The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958 and The Complete Peanuts 1959-1960. I've been enjoying this collection since it began, and immediately devoured 1957-1958. In the beginning of March 1958, Schulz has a short story arc about "kids these days..." The jokes are a bit obvious, mostly because people are still saying the same thing almost 50 years later.
Kids don't have any imagination anymore... Kids watch too much TV... Nobody makes anything by hand anymore... Kids in the past never got into such mischief... Blah blah blah...
I don't think kids change as much as adults who grow up and forget what it was like. I've just turned 32, and I haven't understood teenagers since... well, I didn't understand teenagers much when I was a teenager, but if you're currently under 25 years of age, you're under my cultural radar. I understand younger kids even less. We're simply looking at the world through different glasses. I really hope I don't turn into a cranky adult, unless I get to be cranky and mean like the professor in Futurama.
Good news! It's a suppository!
Click here for the Peanuts strips mentioned: Kids These Days (108KB)
