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Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
Gilead:
--- Quote from: Emaline on 02 Feb 2009, 22:20 ---I weep for humanity sometimes. This woman had a husband and a kid. That kid is going to grow up thinking that Beowulf is a rip off of fucking 300. Sigh.
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They're both bad movies based on much older stories, I don't see what's so 'I weep for humanity' about that.
Emaline:
There is much to weep about. That kid is going to grow up not only only knowing Beowulf as some crappy movie, but thinking it is a crappy rip off of another crappy movie.
Which brings me to... kids are going to grow up watching movies instead of reading books. This depresses the hell out of me. I grew up and had bookshelf after bookshelf after bookshelf over flowing with books. I remember just sorting through thousands of boxes stuff with books. Nowadays, kids can just go see the movie. Where is the fun in that? That leaves nothing to the imagination, and cuts out all the good parts. Its so depressing. Imagination and individuality seems to be frowned upon these days.
But of course...looking what reading my entire life did to me. I have my head in the clouds constantly. Everything is magical, nothing is real, I get attatched to ghosts. Even people who treat me terribly can be knights in shining armor if they just say the right words, nevermind the fact that they seem to actively dislike me, and are very standoffish, and noncaring. They are just like that one character in that one book! And that makes everything ok. Even Garp had his flaws. Even Holden was kind of a jerk.
This is not a proper way to think, and my book reading has made have impossible dreams, and has made me weird, and strange and oddly romantic, and it has had dire consequences on my real life. Life is not, and will never be a fairy tale. The good guys don't always win in the end. The prince doesn't always save the princess, or even want to. No one ends up with a spouse, and kids, and a perfect little house, with straight white picket fence, and a golden retriver named Rover or Spot.
See, much to weep about.
Jimmy the Squid:
Yep. Reading is to blame for your laundry list of personality problems and character flaws.
I bought a fridge today. This is basically the first responsible purchase I have ever made, I expected to feel more grown up or something? Either way it's a pretty cool fridge.
Also I'm thinking of going for my bike license? I figure it will cost less than buying a car, even with all the gear, and it will make me look even cooler. I still haven't figured out what I'm going to do now that I am not going to be studying this year. I should probably tell my folks at some point so I can get used to the disappointment but yeah, I'll do that later.
Gilead:
The next generation are not suddenly a bunch of idiots who won't even look at a book, there were just as many kids who hated reading back when we were young as there are now, and just as many kids who love reading today.
I'm not even going to get in to the second part except to say that books are not the cause of your problems emaline, abysmally low self esteem is, I grew up reading just as many books as you (hell we had a library in our house for a while) and I don't hate myself or let anyone treat me like shit.
Alex C:
That's funny; books turned me into a skeptic.
For what it's worth, there's also more than a few linguists out there who'd point out that kids are very rarely less literate than previous generations. Rather, they just adhere to different standards and emphasize different media. For example, look at texting. People spell words "incorrectly" when texting, but a lot of the times those abreviations are intentional and internally consistent; in order to effectively use text messaging shorthand you need a certain basic understanding of language to begin with or else your message won't be clear; the thought process is closer to creating your own pidgin on the fly rather than simply babbling. Whether grammar nazis like it or not, such a development is closer to an example of how language is pressed into service by each generation rather than a display of idiocy. You can be upset about it if you like, but you may as well realize now that worrying about it is as about as productive as walking down the beach and telling the tide to pack that shit in.
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