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Entry: Adolescence: A Heresy Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_case_against_adolesence#10749 Post contents: It aint just children who are infantilized, the entire thumb-sucking culture is. Not only do teenagers wear what are essentially pajamas in public, adults do it all the time as well, even "professional " types . Adults want to be children forever, they want to be told what to think, what to wear, what to buy , what to eat. Everybody is on a first name basis. The meritocracy has succeeded beyond all measure to an extent that the lowest common denominator is king...or maybe dauphin. When the charade ends, and it will, it always has, the giant thwacking sound you hear will be the clanking of the average American's rubbery and pinky abraded sphincter over their thumb in their mouth as they suck to within an inch of their dutiful lives. If they're lucky, they'll simply pull an auto-black hole and suck themselves into a vanishing pop. The key thing to remember is that even childhood has been institutionalized into a grabass of planned activities and relentless organized activities. There is no time for individual fantasy or exploration.....no time for the kinds of petty larcenies that teach a child right from wrong or hazards from zones of safety. Being a kid now is like being an inmate in a punishing psyche ward where Nurse Ratched is your mother or nanny and your Father is the decaying wreck of a doom clad building itself. It is always film night though, even while in transit. If children had the childhood of even a generation ago, childhoods that had both free and organized time along with the satisfaction of a task to benefit the family, it would not be so bad. The childhood of today is a kind of forced march into consigned compliance with a Giant Marketplace that punishes individual thought and imagination with the alacrity of a Bolsheviki Hall Monitor. Kafka was an optimist. The Berlin Wall started coming down in 89 but it is finishing being mopped up right here in this former Lone Superpower. Why have adults anyhow when the most powerful adults in this besotted lapsed Republic are a wanker like George W...our Neo- Infante Don Carlos Bush , his vice Torquecheney and Condi "look no hands" Rice? The only valuable task toward success these days is developing arms to throw people under the bus without mussing one's hair. Even our captains of Finance are so clueless as to near-tank the markets on these SIV's, CDO's, MBS's that failed to get even the Business 101 requirement of verifying the loan holders real assets. At least the Dutch were left with some nice blooms when they went soft over Tulips. No Virginia, it's amateur hour and there shall be mussed diapers for all....forever. Sent at: 2008 12 01