Pretty funny article.
But in all seriousness growing up in previous decades WAS better. It just was. No AIDS. No global warming. No housing affordability crisis. No huge financial pressures on parents that demanded they work long hours taking them away from kids. Money sucking labels… — Prada — Dior — Chanel etc etc … were yet to seep into the mainstream consciousness. We wanted less stuff but the stuff we did want or need was affordable. Kids were happy to wear the latest inexpensive trend that was within reach of every socio-economic demographic. Meals were eaten at home where banter around the evening dinner table was the usual. Devices were yet to be invented and outdoor play the order of the day. Kids were happier and fitter. Junk food wasn’t so ubiquitous and socially accepted. Obesity in kids was unheard of. Kids were encouraged to read triggering a rich inner life of imagination and wonder. Life was simpler. Needs were simpler and wants were less. Greed wasn’ encouraged or socially accepted as a good thing and the norm, as it has now become, instant gratification being the new order of the day.
As for grooming — natural was in and pressure to adopt the obsessively artificial— as promoted by the beauty industry — just wasn’t considered attractive … or considered at all. When I look at girls today the amount of artifice that goes into creating ‘the look’, from fake nails to hair colouring/extensions to glued on eyelashes to fake tan to cosmetic enhancements such as fillers, botox, not to mention surgery on perfectly healthy, ‘normal’, beautiful young bodies … I shudder to think about the pressure this puts on young women not to mention the financial burden — money that could be spent on education or improving self-esteem in ways that matter. And now the beauty industry is marketing to boys and young men becuase of course this has been an untapped demographic they also would like to exploit. Is it any wonder that depression and teen suicide per capita is on the rise?
It’s all rather depressing when you think about it.
Yeah, in the immortal words of Blur … “modern life is rubbish”. And I must concur.
