Fun is for children. Adults must abandon all interests and concern themselves only with working and providing more offspring for the machine.
Adults like toys. It's stupid to pretend they don't. They always have. Boomers build model trains and will literally say how great it is to have grandkids because it "gives them an excuse to buy toys."
It would be more accurate to say adults no longer hide that they enjoy toys.
It's not nostalgic or childish any more then having a dog as an adult because you grew up around dogs. Or still liking chocolate as an adult. You don't become a totally different person, you're just a smarter old kid.
Fun is for children. Adults must abandon all interests and concern themselves only with working and providing more offspring for the machine.
To that point: toys and playtime have always been socially acceptable things for adults. The catch is the kinds of toys and playtime that is socially acceptable. Hunting or target shooting: acceptable. Laser Tag: man children. Model trains: acceptable. Lego sets: man children.
I do think there's something a bit nefarious and concering in the way capitalism has sort of latched onto nerd culture as a way to sell people their own childhoods back to them but also there is something to be said about letting people have joy and that the concept of viewing people as "manchildren" because they happen to like action figures is sort of gross and rooted in toxic masculinity.
Eh, I interpeted it as "more and more manchildren are buying toys made for children instead of moving on to mature media/toys", but yeah, I'd like to have a plushy of Appa too.
Fun is for children. Adults must abandon all interests and concern themselves only with working and providing more offspring for the machine.
Adults like toys. It's stupid to pretend they don't. They always have. Boomers build model trains and will literally say how great it is to have grandkids because it "gives them an excuse to buy toys."
It would be more accurate to say adults no longer hide that they enjoy toys.
It's not nostalgic or childish any more then having a dog as an adult because you grew up around dogs. Or still liking chocolate as an adult. You don't become a totally different person, you're just a smarter old kid.
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If something is for kids, it must be even better, because kids will absorb it like sponge.
Totally pure unfiltered communist propaganda.
Fuck yea
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:this:
yeah the message of kids shows is super important we're talking about what we teach the next generation is good and bad
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And then :the-doohickey: ?
:volcel-judge: your mission should you choose to accept it
To that point: toys and playtime have always been socially acceptable things for adults. The catch is the kinds of toys and playtime that is socially acceptable. Hunting or target shooting: acceptable. Laser Tag: man children. Model trains: acceptable. Lego sets: man children.
I do think there's something a bit nefarious and concering in the way capitalism has sort of latched onto nerd culture as a way to sell people their own childhoods back to them but also there is something to be said about letting people have joy and that the concept of viewing people as "manchildren" because they happen to like action figures is sort of gross and rooted in toxic masculinity.
Eh, I interpeted it as "more and more manchildren are buying toys made for children instead of moving on to mature media/toys", but yeah, I'd like to have a plushy of Appa too.
Boomers collected looney toons shit as adults and that was for children. It's nothing new.
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traditionally middle aged white guys will pick an era of history usually ww2 but not exclusively and start studying it.
I know someone who got super into Dickens etc
Scrooge-pilled and Orphan-core
Hope those Dickens people are having a good day.
duh, you're supposed to spend 15 years and $60,000 restoring a $10,000 car