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Beat you to it, did I.
This Kid Would Be Just As Annoying As A Democrat
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Maybe he could hook up with the youngest Palin daughter down the road and have that "legacy" cachet working for him.
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You crack me up sometimes with your insight.
As to the kid. I actually quite admire his passion and drive. Sure he's got to get some life experience/perspective and get out of the black and white stage but still he's 14 fer heaven sake.
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He sounds like a little pissant with a typically snotty 14 yo's notion that he knows everything. Otoh, the fact that the Republican party now counts him, along with Rush, Sean and Joe the Plumber (not to mention "Slum love" Steele) as its leaders just makes me laugh. They're still totally lost in the woods, hahahaha.
I saw him on the news last night for the first time and my first reaction was that I wanted to slap him and tell him to go learn to be a kid. I cannot stand precocious children.
Secondly, I wondered WHY are we paying any attention to a 14 year old, someone who can't vote, who has had no life experiences (how can you claim to be a conservative or a liberal until you have had some time on both sides of the fence?) Then I remembered that it alllll comes down to money. He's making money for someone.
Secondly, I wondered WHY are we paying any attention to a 14 year old, someone who can't vote, who has had no life experiences (how can you claim to be a conservative or a liberal until you have had some time on both sides of the fence?) Then I remembered that it alllll comes down to money. He's making money for someone.
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HATE PRECOCIOUS CHILDREN!!!
I hate the current "wise child" trend in media and culture. Movies where a precocious, sensitive wise child educates the immature and fucked-up grownups.
It's not the fault of the kids....it's the parents who romanticize childhood as a time of moral purity. Let's face it: kids are little monsters, struggling to hold their place in the dominance hierarchy.
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Right now the Republicans are desperate for an appealing front man. If a parrot could learn Republican talking points, he would be featured on Faux News and the Rush Limbaugh program. He might even address a joint session of Congress.
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It's because kids dig fantasy and you can make a lot of money selling kid stories to kids.
I remember being a kid and reading certain books and thinking Nancy Drew should probably stop being so damned nosy and call the cops.
But that's me. I didn't even romanticize me when I was there.
I can't even read Harry Potter without thinking "Why the fuck can't a grownup handle it this time?"
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I see this Krohn kid's stunt as part of the trend toward overindulgence of children, that's been going on for quite a while now.
When I was 13, if I had told my father I wanted to make a speech to a bunch of grownups, telling them what they'd been doing wrong for years and lecturing them on how to fix it, my dad would have just burst out laughing. If I had pressed the matter, then HE would have lectured ME about how 13 year olds who've never held a job or paid there own bills or run their own household don't get to lecture adults - it works the other way around. And by the way, go finish your chores and do your homework, this conversation is over.
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I'm talking more about things aimed at adults.
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Like what?
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This show I just saw on the TV at the deli. This annoying little pretween with a lampshade hairdo was giving his cool dad hell for various crimes.
It all goes back to the bigheaded "i see dead people" kid.
Precocious, morally advanced children are as ubiquitous as bumbling white Homer Simpson dads.
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I blame "Powder."
I don't remember where I heard it, but probably in one of my horror/fantasy shows or movies.
"Children already know that monsters exist. We need stories because they need to be shown, because they do not know, that monsters can be defeated."
This put in terms of child molesters and such...made me take it a bit easier on the genre.
Sounded wise and shit.
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S. Spielberg and his baby boomer idolization of childhood share some fault as well.
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Throw in the designer-stroller purchasing hipster-breeder conceit dipset making these soul-song-singing-in-a-Pepsi-commercial Little Miss Sunshines marketable and you've got a virtual Murderers' Row.
Maybe it's been quoted in a movie, but it originated with G.K. Chesterton:
"Fairy tales don't teach children that monsters exist. Children already know that monsters exist. Fairy tales teach children that monsters can be killed."
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FUck dadster, momster and little Juicebox Joshua!
Thing about the Harry Potter stories is that it's always the grownups causing the trouble. That is, the grownups fight wars among themselves and the kids get put in danger thereby (which quite often happens in real life). Harry no sooner learns that wizards exist and he is one, than he also learns that a man he never heard of before wants to kill him because of a war that mostly happened before he was born. The same theme comes up again and again in all the books. The Potter novels have been criticized for teaching kids to disobey rules and authority, but what else are they supposed to do in such a situation?
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Well, grownups write these stories in order to engage and empower kids, but they also end up entirely isolating them because there's never an adult when you need one.
I call this the "irresponsibility fairy" factor.
Whenever adults are so busy being dumbasses and everyone else is too stupid to know the difference, at the end of the movie I say "Thank You Irresponsibility Fairy!"
I'd like to see how Voldemort deals with muggle things like rocket launchers from several directions where you can't exactly Expelliarmus everything at once.
But that's just me.
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Unfortunately responsibility and smarts make for short stories:
Example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqVD0swvWU
Example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqVD0swvWU
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