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Originally posted by centurion1211
Originally posted by Sparkly_Eyed777
I heard about the emo bashing in Mexico too. It's such a shame that people can't accept others who are different you know? I mean you don't have to agree with what people do, but you can at least agree to disagree right?
Except that this whole "emo" thing is manufactured. These people are no different than any screwed up kids that came before them. The only new thing is that instead of trying to overcome their issues and become a productive member of society, they are using this to wallow in their self pity and beg for a free ride.
Young people know it most certainly; we call that knowledge idealism. They know that there is a way the world is supposed to be, and a magnificent role for themselves in that more beautiful world. Broken to the lesser lives we offer them, they react with hostility, rage, cynicism, depression, escapism, or self-destruction—all the defining qualities of modern adolescence. Then we blame them for not bringing these qualities under control, and when they finally have given up their idealism we call them mature. Having given up their idealism, they can get on with the business of survival: practicality and security, comfort and safety, which is what we are left with in the absence of purpose. So we suggest they major in something practical, stay out of trouble, don't take risks, build a résumé. We think we are practical and wise in the ways of the world. Really we are just broken and afraid. We are afraid on their behalf, and, less nobly, we are afraid of what their idealism shows us: the plunder and betrayal of our own youthful possibilities.
In other words, school is an instrument of alienation. It alienates children from their families, not only by removing them physically but by replacing and professionalizing a traditionally important sphere of interaction: education. It alienates children from communities, segregating them by age, inducing competition among them, isolating them from adult life, and feeding them a curriculum determined by distant experts. (The community-breaking function of school is especially strong after 100 years of school consolidation and state-sponsored standardization of curricula). It alienates children from nature and the outdoors, of course, simply by keeping them inside all day—surely an unprecedented condition of childhood until the last century.
Originally posted by centurion1211
Emo.
One day last year the son of some friends that I hadn't seen for awhile showed up at a family get together with long hair combed over his face and down past his chin so you couldn't even see his face. Of course everyone asked what's up with this kid. The answer from other kids there: he's an "emo".
Of course, the real answer is that he was just one more screwed up teenager who would do anything to get some attention.
Emo - schemo, it's just BS in reality.
Originally posted by centurion1211
Originally posted by Sparkly_Eyed777
I heard about the emo bashing in Mexico too. It's such a shame that people can't accept others who are different you know? I mean you don't have to agree with what people do, but you can at least agree to disagree right?
Except that this whole "emo" thing is manufactured. These people are no different than any screwed up kids that came before them. The only new thing is that instead of trying to overcome their issues and become a productive member of society, they are using this to wallow in their self pity and beg for a free ride.