Innocence murdered. Creativity bogged. The wonder of life, ceases to spiral like rainbows in child's minds.
Back date 40 years ago where the world was a much more simpler place; children grow up with a sense of wonder and question the world around them with as much cerebral and physical movement as possible. They question why nature works as it works, why the animals hibernate, why people behave the way they behave, how stick forts can repel monsters from the land Zerprok, and whether the boogie man under their beds may have a liking towards candy floss. They play with toys they make themselves; spearheading creative thought while they create and make a world of their own without a care of reality. This was only a few decades ago.
In actual fact, children of my era (the 80's and all of its big haired, electronica, multi-coloured lycra glory) were the last generation of children to experience life without much meddling of the adult world. We were born in the bridge of technology joining the new and old school ways of living - changed by a leap in telecommunicative technology. We saw the birth of the Internet and the death of snail mail. We witnessed the birth of one-touch communication and the death of the firm handshake.
Though one may argue that the world is increasingly becoming a more dangerous place to live in where greed, power, hunger, intolerance and ignorance constantly shifts the paradigms of human interaction; we must understand that over-protection is not protecting anything for future purposes. Adults cage their children like hamsters, teaching them that the world out there is a bad, bad, wicked place full of boogiemen that roam the streets not only under beds. They teach adult practices to ensure that their children are able to make cognitive actions for their own safety. They shadow their children with a cloak that is much less translucent, blinding imaginations and instilling fear under the guise of 'nurturing'.
The era of growing up, falling down, dusting one's self and running again is over. In fact, children now learn life's lessons through a LCD screen displaying pixelised characters toting guns bigger than refrigerators. They live out adventures and events of escapism through pre-made storylines made by adults. Never again will children make a world they can call their own.
These thoughts have been spurred by this song. This song speaks of the death of child-like imagination.
20 November, 2009
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I totally agree with your views and the innocence of discovery is sadly and pathetically lost; disappeared into the realms of fantasy. The line is very much blurred, the line of reality and escapism. It's been noted that children are being robbed of this childlike wonderment of the world and the things around them as young as in their toddler age; while being fed perpetually on screens, on what or how they should think and feel and that leaves zero room for any imagination.
yes its indeed a future shift on how we as a human race will 'think'. Sooner or later we will have 'dreams' which are all manufactured fragments of a big corporate story all dialed to divert our attention to products and items that end at cash registers.
Save the children! let them dream!
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