Brazzil

"But some times, when the TV and Walkman are turned off, the enormous silence around us worries me."

So turn on your computer and log in. That's what the internet is there for.

Duh.

When I first read the title it sounded interesting to me, ...

... there I should have stopped.

However I made the mistake to start reading the article, because that's something people do when the title sounds interesting. The article is just boring, it has no structure and no point. It's just leads to unbearable boredom.

The writer has done a fine job of diagnosing a problem with protentially disastrous consequences for our culture. I am "middle-aged" (assuming that anyone recognises the existence of such a state) and many of my age have rejected their important responsibility to acquire and transmit wisdom and experience to the best of their ability. It's all facial surgery, and skirts hiked to where time has withered the flower. A pathetic and undignified competition with young people who, looking on resentfully, are no longer even permitted to be young on their own terms.

Very interesting, although I'm between my teens and twenties and love to think of myself as an anomally, I have noticed this phenomenon for quite some time now. People's aversion for darkness, silence, ideology, philosophy, classical music, literature, order, formal language, but as Goethe wrote, men of science care not for things of men, which puts me in a crippled position to judge. Guess the ability to admit the lack of purpose in life, and having to see raising children just as optiate for the masses is a step foward, since we could never have avoided this abyss. The important question is where do we go from here, is the creation of mindless consumist zombies enough? To corrupt or not to corrupt the youth's mind, what are the side effects of that drug we all love called innocence? Innocence, ignorance, enemy easily overcome, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, isn't it?

"Not that parents "in the old days" actually knew how their children should face life" and i quote...if parents don't know how their children should face life then their child is being ignored or thechild is ignoring the parents...

Other wise...this article is boring. It talks about all the pointless stuff...it lost me at..."the..." thats all i could bare...otherwise...i just skimmed..thourgh it

Westerners are such spoiled brats living in Never-never land. Everybody gets old! And everybody is going to die! If you want to spend a fortune lifting your butt and face then that is your choice but if this obsession with being eternal teenagers is not healthy!

Undeniably, your images of a prolonged, irresponsible adolescence reveal a fraction of a type of escapism that exists. But for many there is another reality behind our reverence for youth. Rather than demanding erasure of the past in pursuit of a life unmoderated by the wisdom accrued in years of worldly experience, this attitude recognizes the potential in combining the wisdom of our years with the energy, hopefulness, and openness of youth. Are the contributions of a reflective elder any less valuable because he or she remains exceptionally fit, vital, and mentally flexible? We should not equate extending our years of optimal health, high energy, and capacity for learning--resulting in increased professional contributions and service to humanity--with a protracted span of empty immaturity and poor taste.
--Becky (http://www.the-astrolabe.net/seattlewta.htm)

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