there is this wonderful book called americas vanishing adults which talks about how adults are acting and thinking like juveniles.
this movie proves that. men liking comic books, women wanting teddy bears, i dont know what the world is becoming.
By C. S. Lewis
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
Your concerns seem far more immature to me than adults liking comic books and teddy bears.
That's beautifully put. Lewis always did know how to pluck out something grand from his mind to ours, didn't he?
I still believe that there is a prolonged adolescence and a self-infantilising in our culture which should embarrass people and be rejected, but this quote you've brought up is a good reminder not to simply stop entirely appreciating childhood wonders. We should still be allowed to like superheroes, video games, and that sort of thing, just so long as we can also be mature and wise when called upon.
Put another way: a bit of sweets is fine and good, but diet should include far more filling, fortifying, and complex dishes.
With this I agree.
shareI agree. The problem with embracing things that are often considered childish, is those hobbies often become consuming and keep people from fulfilling the adult aspects of their lives, and it does prevent them from maturing some of the time. As a very hard working video game and comic collector, I'm aware of many others in those hobbies. A lot of them still live with their parents way to long, have dead end jobs or no jobs and literally lack maturity because they haven't developed it. They also tend to lack a lot of real world social skills. I suppose it's like anything that gets taken beyond moderation. The worst part, is they often don't see anything wrong with living like that, or at least have justified that perspective to themselves.
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shareAdults have always acted and thought like juveniles, it's just that a lot more are becoming grown up enough to admit this.
shareThis is what people with no sense of humor say, when they see other people laughing and enjoying themselves.
Frankly I work fulltime and I pay my own rent at my own apartment and keep it clean and also pay an electric bill. I also read comics. So you can keep your comments to yourself TC.
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