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Originally Posted by Washing Machine
Teenagers have always been outsiders
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Nay, my friend. Youth culture didn't exist in its own right until the 50s as far as I am aware, kids just lived amongst their parents. I'm so glad someone put a stop to that!
Lux, I agree that there's a problem with people stopping intellectual growth at a young age (very often when out of education), when they "settle down" so to speak. Washingmachine often tells me about these idiots who used to argue with him and it sounds terrible, but I don't think its particularly representative. Now I am older I get into bigger disagreements with my elders and I usually come to the conclusion that they are simply set in their ways because they are from an earlier generation. The next one moves on, then stops when they reach their middle ages, to be dismissed as idiots by their offpsring. That's how it looks to me. Society moves on, old people don't. Everyone eventually becomes narrow minded bastards, though Washingmachine and I always swear we will never be like that.
It's funny how his posts are often a recollection of what we have discussed the night before.