I'm assuming he did this because none of his children are aged over seven and if they were acting up he'd probably become authoritative to retain control of their world and he doesn't really know better. He's just being a dad and that's ok...but it's also really fucking wrong.
Teenagers are different to seven year olds. Adolescence is about pushing boundaries. It's the psychological fledging period that breaks us away from those luscious parental tits we loved to suck on. It's a vital part of growing up. If it wasnt, there wouldnt be so many Hollywood films about being a stupid teenager.
Being a stupid teenager is all about not being a child. Being a child is all about climbing trees and doing what you're told. So declaring war on teenagers is like saying 'Dont test me'. And saying that to a teenager is like saying 'Im an idiot and dont know how to deal with stupid teenagers'.
It's during this glorious period of irrational boners, trainee bra's and excessive masturbation (....I'm generalising-not personalising here) during this period is when you realise that
A: Disney films were full of shit and
B: Justice is an ideal to aspire to as opposed to a fundamental systematic approach to life.
Basically you find out that the whole wide world is actually the whole wild world and then you realise what wild is. It's a dark forest with a tranny granny wolf waiting to eat you.
It's hungry and it's out to feed on you. And that's why teenagers are emo. Because everyone tells children the world is supposed to be fun and safe and just like justice- it's nothing more than an ideal to aspire to. But you cant tell a child that big bad wolves exist and they're not really wolves but horrifyingly human, like your parents or government but nonetheless they still want to eat you.
So you coax them into it. You reveal to them the truth incrementally.
You tell them Santa was nothing but an international conspiracy, orchestrated by parents to make you conform to their cultural norms and make you stop touching your penis in public. You try squeeze the noble virtues of individualism you've falsely built in them into a tight box by telling them to keep their head down, study hard, get a good job and a safe home to provide for their future families etc all perfectly fine ideals. But they're stupid teenagers and still think they can have it both ways. They want the ideals from their childhood and will fight you tooth and nail to bring with them those cuddly ideals into their adulthood. This might even be why society improves with each generation.
The poor fucking twats that are the current bunch of adolescence have been brought up in a culture of deep fat fried consumerism. A sick type of material want where education and hard work is rejected over the celebration of the quick and easy. They are bombarded with sexy sexualisation far younger than people of my age were. I'm 27- which means, as a genius; I'll die soon...probably after this blog.
There's different types of teenager these days; goths, emo's, chav's, jocks, flava flav and cybermonkeys- and they all fucking hate each other. Serious hate too, they physically kick and stab the shit out of each other every day going to school. More often than not they go home to their parents dead.
When you throw the cultural expectancies (which vary from be rich and gorgeous to be a thug fuck) onto these social complexities (don't be different) and combined with the urge to be in control of your own life- you get one long winded brain fart and that's why these kids are stupid. They're really fucking new to the world and that makes them ignorant. They are like real people only with dipshit sensibilities...but we have to be nice to them because we (society) have raised them to be dipshits. So to judge them is to neglect the huge failings of society.
Also, biologically- they are a Hormonal Cluster Fuck. 20% of them think about killing themselves- not just because they are hormonal but because they're ugly, fat, poor, lonely, gay, spotty or simply because they are really hardcore emo. All teenagers are dormant atomic bombs of crazy emo. The process of adolescence is fragile and it can be really traumatic. I think we, the post pubescent, neglect the trials and tribulations of being a stupid emo teenager.
Ok, so that's why stupid emo teenagers are stupid emo teenagers. What happened last week was not because stupid emo teenagers are stupid and emo-it's because they dont want to be the victims of the previous generations mistakes.
Those riots that sprung up in England, with all those disillusioned stupid teenagers- how was this not expected to happen? The teenagers that were rioting have grown up in a part of the world, that when you speak of social injustice you are speaking of their world. They have every right to be angry. These riots weren't political, they were social or cultural or even both.
For years pop culture has being telling people they should do whatever they want but lately it has been about living a lifestyle that isnt real.
I was at a gig last week and the lead singer of the band made everyone in the audience chant something about how we flew in first class....We didnt, we're Irish and we were in Ireland. At first he asked 'who flew in in the economy section?' and everyone cheered, the guy stopped said '...no' and made us do it again and told us to accept nothing but first class.
Imagine if we were idiots and took him at his word? Imagine if all my heroes kept telling me to have unrealistic expectations about everything the whole time. Imagine if one of the best selling books of the past decade was a book that told you you could have anything you wanted if you wished hard enough and didnt accept the possibility of not having it.
Birds learn to fly because they see their parents doing it. That's probably not true, I'm not a birdoligist but it suits the point I'm making.
Imagine if birds were told they could fly but never go to flight school. On their first flight they fall to their squishy death but just before they actually die, daddy bird was like 'Why didnt you flap your wings Sonny?'. The bird's name is Sonny. That's similar to whats going on with teenagers and thats why they have an attitude of entitlement.
We aspire to be the ideals we see in front of us.
These socio-economic factors at play are in a danger of being over looked because of the extent of the mass vandalism and looting. The people gathered out of an injustice that needed immediate attention. But the violence rose out of unjust neglect that has been going on for decades.
For whatever reasons, that guy was shot and the community felt an injustice that needed to be dealt with appropriately, which it wasn't. Even if it was a peaceful protest, it would have always been wrought with hostility towards the police force- who shot a man dead because they expected the worst from him.
'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere'
They were protesting and people got angrier because they weren't being listened too.
Teenagers, being half human and half of everything else that's wrong with the world- they acted out. Those teenagers would have found themselves in a state of growing mass hysteria, it would be akin to going nuts at a festival.
They did what they should have done and acted out. But the tragedy here is that they were so fucking stupid that they didnt know what they were fighting for. If they had marched on political buildings or banks- they would be heros. But they didnt because they are dumb shits.
David Cameron has declared war on dumb shits.
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