Today's kids are way too soft. For one thing, there is too much emphasis on safety. Child proof medicine bottles, fire proof pajamas, child restrained car seats... and helmets! Baseball, bicycles, skateboard helmets. Kids have to wear helmets now for everything except jerking off! Grown-ups have taken all the fun from being a kid just to save a few thousand lives. It's pathetic. What's happening is that these soft fruity baby boomers are raising an entire generation of soft fruity kids who aren't allowed to have hazardous toys. Whatever happened to natural selection; survival of the fittest? The kid who swallowed too many marbles doesn't grow up to have kids of his own. Simple as that. Nature knows best. We're saving entirely too many lives in this country of all ages. Nature should be allowed to do its job of killing off the weak and sickly and ignorant people without interference from airbags and batting helmets. Just think of it as passive eugenics.
One more item about children, and that is, the superstitious nonsense that blames tobacco companies for kids who smoke. Listen, kids don't smoke because the camel in sunglasses tells them to. They smoke for the same reasons adults do: because it relieves anxiety and depression. And you'd be anxious and depressed too if you had to put up with these pathetic insecure striving anal yuppy parents who enroll you in college before you're old enough to know which side of the play pen smells the worst. And then they fill you full of Ritalin and drag you all over town in search of meaningless structure: little league, cub scouts, swimming, soccer, karate, piano, bagpipes, water colors, witch craft, glass blowing, and dildo practice. They even have play dates for Christ's sakes. Playing is now done by appointment! Whatever happened to: you show me your weewee and I'll show you mine?
Sunday, November 28, 2010
George Carlin on the "War on Childhood"
I'm not a fan of George Carlin, but here's his fantastic diatribe against what I've deemed the "War on Childhood". See my previous posts on this disheartening phenomenon: Overmedication, Occupational Therapists, Abolishing Summer Break, Bipolar disorder, and Autism. (I've bolded the best parts.)
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I hope that Obama and Arne Duncan succeed in lengthening the school year.
When NAM results don't get better it will vindicate the HBD viewpoint, and will add unbearable pressure the blank slater fantasies of liberal educrats and teachers.
Carlin is right. Wealthy middle class whites have overparented their kids to the point that the man are pussies. Just look at the VT shooting. A littlew asian weirdo kills 20 people and not ONE man tried to stop him. Pathetic. The truth is that white men are not very masculine anyomre.
Black boys on the other hand are lively and athletic. No one messes with them.
No wonder you see more and more black boy/white girl relationships.
Anonymous, get a life. Your comment reeks of petty jealousy.
The perception of danger is much stronger, but childhood is actually much safer now than before all this.
This isn't all irrational. As society was theoretically becoming more sensitive to the needs of its weak members, people became more concerned about children.
On the other hand, sounding the alarm has proven to be a great way get money and influence.
Children have become more valuable as people lower on the social scale have had fewer children and adopted the high-investment child raising customs of the upper class.
Camlost, I'm hoping you're right, but not holding my breath.
For those who just don't want to face reality, there will always be some new reason...the funding wasn't fair! The teachers weren't as good! The curriculum was too hidebound, or not engaging enough! Disparate impact! Racism is destroying their self esteem! BLA BLA BLA. Etc, etc.
Hey Fellow Traveler: There was a news story about 3 yrs. ago about a public middle school on Telegraph. The black parents complained that the teachers "smiled more" at the blond-haired kiddies. Remember that?
The first paragraph is a bunch of bullshit. There's nothing wrong with child safety.
The second paragraph is true though.
I'm not a fan of George Carlin. I don't make an exception for his willful blindness or his lumping together good parenting and bad parenting. He's not a comedian so much as he's a self-centered holier-than-thou egoist who mocks everything he doesn't understand in way which is derived from humor. I knew half a dozen guys in high school and college who were just like Carlin and just as funny as Carlin.
Play dates are necessary for people who live in rural areas. Can't let kids play with the kids next door if there aren't any.
Smoking doesn't relieve depression. If it did, someone would have shown that with evidence.
Only 40-year-old female typists who don't look a day under 60 use "anal" to mean "anal retentive". Normal people use "anal" to mean "like an anus".
"Meaningless structure" is a contradiction in terms to anyone who has ever taught a child to do something useful (complaining into a microphone doesn't count).
I don't know anyone who has given their child Ritalin and the only adult I know of who's used it is Dennis Mangan, who has more brains and integrity in one of his hangnails than George Carlin has in his whole body.
(And, in answer to the inevitable question, I do happen to like several comedians, like Jim Gaffigan, Rita Rudner, Bill Cosby, Stephen Lynch, etc.)
Whatever happened to natural selection; survival of the fittest? The kid who swallowed too many marbles doesn't grow up to have kids of his own
That is just stupid. I'm too lazy to wiki Carlin and see if he had any children, but this callous and pureille comment suggests that he croaked without issue.
@Helene Edwards- I don't recall that story, but it is not a surprise. One of the 3 elementary schools we are zoned for is a bilingual/Spanish immersion school with pretty good test scores and a nice, recently refurbished campus. We have learnt through the parent grapevine that it is pointless to apply* unless you have at least one native Spanish speaker in the home. In effect, it's a public school reserved only for the children of immigrants from Spanish-speaking countries.
*for the curious, the local school district's way around prohibitions against using racial quotas to apportion students to schools is to gerrymander the districts such that a zone will run through the rich, middle class, and poor parts of town, and all parents in that zone rank their choices among the schools in that zone. The result is that few kids go to a school that's in their neighborhood, or together with other kids in their neighborhood. Many of the richer (and whiter) parents, who generally don't get their 1st or 2nd choice schools, end up going private or homeschooling.
A reasonable man would not use the foul-mouthed leftist Carlin as a moral teacher. It is he and his hippie ilk who created most of the social chaos he rails against.
Echo BLode.
For a more refined look at the subject, check out Neil Postman's The Disappearance of Childhood. If you can ignore Carlin's puerile politics, then you will easily miss Postman's. This book makes him sound downright conservative.
Not true about "anal" B-Lode. In law school I had a professor, who had a history PhD from Harvard and who is now a federal judge, who constantly shortened anal retentive to "anal." Usually he was referring to himself. Nice guy, but predictably, most of his opinions are twice as long as they have to be.
You're quite right, not a hacker. I was trying my hand at the business of humorous quips. Not cut out for it, I'm afraid.
Still, I do get hung up on this usage. I think "anal" is often a put-down directed by people who don't spend much time on housekeeping at people who do. And it strikes me as a thoroughly modern inversion to use this word to mean "annoyingly clean". It can also be used against people who spell words correctly, as in, "ok so im not annul about speling so what!!!!!!"
Crazy world....
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