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I have from time to time. I'm only 28, and the world is already way different from when I was a kid.
i feel alienated from modern girls
All the time. That's why I could never live in a big city - nature keeps me grounded. I suppose the more you understand about society, the easier it is to find faults within it - like social conventions. And things are also a lot harder if you're an intellectual - others appear blissfully ignorant while you're running around each and every little thought that pops into your head.
In the big picture of the human race, I think things are getting more complex, but also more fragile.
Yes,I'm only 21.I feel old.I would like to move to Morocco for the love of God.
I've always felt alienated from the world.
Felix, are you really 99? That sounds too perfect a number. I feel the same way. The only thing I can tell you is that the books of yesteryear=the video games/TV shows of today.
Take for example, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (YES, this really IS going somewhere). At first glance, you see: Cheesy tage lines, hot chick in leather pants fighting demons. Entertaining, but probably stupid. I thought so at first. Then I started watching it... religiously. Joss Whedon (creator) is one of the greatest writers of our time, in my opinion. If we didn't have TV, he'd still be writing books. And people would love them. But nowadays, we have so much many more devices to feed the same hunger.
It's hard to adapt, I still don't have a cell phone. But, I'm a film major=I HAVE to get one soon. It's just the way of the world now...
Also consider: If you don't want to "change with the times", you don't have to. There's nothing more inspiring than when, in the movies (Hey, I told ya I'm a film major) some young whipper-snapper tells grams or gramps how to do something and they won't listen, and then in the end, the grandparent is right...
and there's nothing worse than those cell phone commercials where senior citizens talk like gangstaz in ebonics and dance like their at a rave.
No, I'm not really 99...only about 1/3 of that number.
I couldn't agree more about the rapping grannies, even as a joke. It just points out how immature society is now as a whole: almost no one has any gravitas or sense of personal dignity. It's perfectly fine to act like a 16-year-old...when you're still 16. In recent years, the few times I've watched bilge on TV like SEX AND THE CITY or FRIENDS, I see a bunch of adults acting like hormone-addled adolescents. I also hate the general PC preachiness of most modern American mass media entertainment. Everything must contain a moral of some sort or "engage the social conscience." Whatever. I hate the politicizing of entertainment and sort of pine for the days, back in the 1920's, when the film studios would draft contracts for their stars that would allow them to rescind their contracts for that kind of controversial public behavior, whatever side of the political spectrum they favored.
We live in a childish, rude, silly culture.
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I always feel out of place.
TOTALLY. I feel like I was born in the wrong era.
GREAT question.
by mojo on Mon Jul 19, 04 2:34pm
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The modern world is a cacophany of violence and hatred, but it can still surprise me when I see random acts of kindness or compassion. Those moments reconnect me to the world and make me glad to be a part of it, but those moments are all too often short-lived. Human beings still have the ability to express those qualities, but it seems like most people would rather emulate the opposite.
by zig on Sun Jul 25, 04 6:24am
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