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.
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.