The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113317 Message #2408305
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
08-Aug-08 - 07:41 AM
Thread Name: BS: I'm Only a Child
Subject: RE: BS: I'm Only a Child
Nothing wrong with the message but am I alone in finding that a precocious teenager telling me what I should do is annoying? I know she is not addressing me personaly and if I had the opportunity to address such an assembly the message would be very similar. But such phrases as 'to tell you adults you must change your ways' does nothing to endear her to us 'adults'! Why, in fact, does she think that all us 'adults' think in the same way as the people who are ruining our planet? Why does she think that I can do something about it any more than she can? I guess it is because she is young and I am old, therefore the 'enemy'? I remember being just the same. Thinking that someone must be at fault and that someone was, in turn, parents, adults and god. May as well blame the Bolivian unicyclists for all the good it will do. Maybe a middle line between youthful exhuberance and adult cynicism would be better?