To my great chagrin, I often find myself having thoughts these days that make me feel like a fogey. For example, how those rings that pierce the septum and hang in the center of the nose are just a bad idea. I mean, at what point did making a semi-permanent fashion choice that’s gotta hurt really badly when you sneeze start being considered attractive? But in my head, I sound like Scar-Jo’s mother (or maybe she’s fine with it, I don’t know) when I think these things, so I tend not to say them out loud. I don’t want to be one of those over-the-hill types who complains about kids today and thinks that all new trends are bad because they’re new and she just can’t deal. Cultural change is always derided at first as shocking, improper and indecent. Women’s suffrage, jazz, television, Dungeons and Dragons, people actually thought these things were going to tear down America, but where would it be now without any one of them? I believe that questioning authority, and the status quo, and the cultural norms that keep us in line is vital to progress, so I tend to tell myself that any impulse I have to instantly dislike a new trend that I’ve noticed is telling me that I’m getting old, and I should keep it to myself.
Don’t Stoop
Don’t Stoop
Don’t Stoop
To my great chagrin, I often find myself having thoughts these days that make me feel like a fogey. For example, how those rings that pierce the septum and hang in the center of the nose are just a bad idea. I mean, at what point did making a semi-permanent fashion choice that’s gotta hurt really badly when you sneeze start being considered attractive? But in my head, I sound like Scar-Jo’s mother (or maybe she’s fine with it, I don’t know) when I think these things, so I tend not to say them out loud. I don’t want to be one of those over-the-hill types who complains about kids today and thinks that all new trends are bad because they’re new and she just can’t deal. Cultural change is always derided at first as shocking, improper and indecent. Women’s suffrage, jazz, television, Dungeons and Dragons, people actually thought these things were going to tear down America, but where would it be now without any one of them? I believe that questioning authority, and the status quo, and the cultural norms that keep us in line is vital to progress, so I tend to tell myself that any impulse I have to instantly dislike a new trend that I’ve noticed is telling me that I’m getting old, and I should keep it to myself.