11-02-2016, 08:35 AM
(11-01-2016, 03:16 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(11-01-2016, 08:14 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(10-31-2016, 10:57 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: This election needs to be rated X. Not suitable for viewing by children.
True enough, but why should we adults have to suffer?
Because we act like children?
True. Much of the problem is that adults acting like children deny children the right to be children. Just think of how Boomers trying to extend their childhood and the Silent trying to recover the childhood that they thought they missed kept Generation X from getting what they needed -- competent care, direction, and attention.
Imagining oneself as a child again allows an adult to fully enjoy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, The Wizard of Oz, and Spirited Away. Being fully adult means being able to relate such and incorporate them into the consciousness of a child, let alone have the genius for creating them.
Donald Trump is the stereotypical man-child. I question whether he ever grew up. Most Boomers really did have to grow up, learning to show deference to bosses and customers out of necessity But such people found themselves having to spend their lives ducking a very low glass ceiling in life, one that protected the privileged classes from any challenge of people more competent and moral. Such people have never had much influence in life. What a pity! We instead get someone so hollow and petty as Donald Trump as the nominee for one of the major Parties.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.