Comments on: Youthful Rebellion

By: alistair

alistair — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:56:15 +0000

i still adolesce at 44. what`s the hurry? i could live to a hundred and three. or be gone tomorrow.
there are children in africa carrying russian guns paid for with g-8 money(yours and mine) as young as 6 or 7 shooting the shit out of jungle cover and the odd goat and once in a while a person. and inner city kids selling crack and kids in bogata selling thier sister at 9. we grow up and then, sometimes, we turn around and grow back down. if we can afford the luxury.

By: human?

human? — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:10:24 +0000

comfortable even, with a t key that doesnt work well….

By: human?

human? — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:09:30 +0000

i just turned 26 and dont care.

26 times around then sun, thats all…..

The human life span has been growing dramatically. A person born in 1776 could expect to live 35 years. By the year 1900, the average life span was only 47 years. Today, a female born can expect to live 79 years, and a male 72 years.

http://www.fitnessandfreebies.com/seniors/healthyaging.html

i dunno if that a reliable resource, its the first one i found…

of course there is some kind of oppression of the mind going on…. but you also have to consider changes in time itself….

im comforable right now with my level of knowing, having never completed high school but i can argue (and win!) easy with people twice my age (at least)

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By: Fell

Fell — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:21:30 +0000

This totally amazes me. I don’t even know where to start. I remember once reading of a 12-year-old French officer â€” perhaps during the height of the Napoleonic Wars, I am not sure. Makes you really take a look in the mirror and ask wtf, both personally and socially.

By: hebrides

hebrides — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:21:39 +0000

Yes, I’d say so. Since adolescents tend to be more impulsive than adults, making it easier to pull them into mindless consumer zombiehood. Being in my 20’s I definitely feel I should be further along and more inner directed and self-disciplined than I am. Yet, those of my age who I see around me seem to be much in the same condition, if not worse. I’m reminded of a line from Zappa’s ThingFish, “Ya’ll take too long to grow up in America.” But it’s up to individuals to do the hard work of growing up for themselves since the culture often has very little reason to help you.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 05:11:44 +0000

Isn’t a perpetually suspended adolescence pretty much a requirement for a successful consumer culture?

By: Petty Stream of Consciousness

Petty Stream of Consciousness — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:09:15 +0000

Well, you know Hobbits aren’t considered adults until after their “tweens”. It would be a good thing if humans become more hobbit like….bla,bla It appears to be true being in your 20’s is an extended adolesence period. Which is fine because I hate the pressure that I have to be a college graduate or married by the time I’m 22. Anyway age isn’t all that important beyond its biological implications. I think its great when people feel alive and not young, old or middleaged..

By: rg

rg — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 03:51:15 +0000

in america these days, i round things off and say that on average childhood lasts from 0-10 years of age, adolescence from 10-30, and adulthood from 30 on.

it’s been amazing to watch the culture change and get fully into marketing to 25-year-olds as if they were 15.

By: JK

JK — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 03:04:44 +0000

I shall never forget the horrid impression made upon me at the sight of the first man I had ever seen killed. It staggered me at first, but they soon began to fall so fast that it appeared like a dream and produced no effect on my nerves.

How many graphically simulated murders has an American of 21 in 2005 witnessed?

I don’t even want to think about the uncharted territory our culture is steaming through.