... that Dreyfuss' adult Gordie was closer in 1986 to the 1959 events from his childhood than we are now to the 1980's.
Especially for those of us who were children then. We're getting old!
Presumably the adult audience in the 80's would have looked back on the 50's childhood depicted with some nostalgia, but really - apart from pretty superficial stuff like styles of music, dress, car design, etc - there wasn't any major change in the lives of children between those two eras.
Whereas nowadays technological advancements, social changes, and increased concern about children's safety have had led to marked differences between our experience of childhood and that of today, making our sense of distance and separation from those days feel all the greater.
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Contestado por Drooch
el 5 de marzo de 2017 a las 19:01
Yeah that's a weird thought! I also wonder about the types of people that are created in today's world - these days there are constant distractions, and boredom is a thing of the past. I remember staring out of car windows, pondering stuff, finding ways to amuse ourselves. Curiosity, discovery and patience don't seem to have a place in a world of instant gratification. ADD seems to be on the rise, and all this shít about identifying as polygendered Otherkins seems to mark a culture of grotesque paradise-syndrome sufferers.
As Douglas Murray says, 'these are the things we'll be arguing about when the Mullahs nuke us'. I think that's why there's now a pining for simpler times, and a rediscovery of core values.
Contestado por DanDare
el 5 de marzo de 2017 a las 19:55
Perversely that is what the mullahs want: simpler times, and a rediscovery of core values!
Contestado por Drooch
el 5 de marzo de 2017 a las 20:15
Very true, though their core values are insane theocratic ones that lead to failed states and violent conquest.
Contestado por DanDare
el 6 de marzo de 2017 a las 03:38
Sounds like the Republican Party in the USA!
Contestado por theugly
el 6 de marzo de 2017 a las 08:35
its crazy yes :) Like when i saw Back to the Future II at the movies it felt 2015 was way too far in the future it would never happen.
Contestado por wreckage3001 🎃🏠☕🍪
el 6 de marzo de 2017 a las 10:10
You know you're getting old when you listen to some radio station for elderly people. And they play Depeche Mode or The Cure.
Contestado por RCH2288
el 26 de julio de 2017 a las 19:23
Ha Ha...so true. 2 of my favorite bands of all time. Have seen the Cure 4 times in concert. 1989, 1993, 2003 and 2016 Seen Depeche Mode twice 1990, 2005 and will be seeing them this september.
Contestado por Joe
el 27 de julio de 2017 a las 06:21
I was born in 1993, and yeah, there is some truth about this instant gratification, although it can be rewarding... However, I don't appreciate what one of you wrote about "polygender"- being transgender is a real thin, it's taken years for people to work this out, but it needs to be acknowledged- however, although imagination may not quite be what it once was, it still does exist- I've seen children with a lot of it
Contestado por theugly
el 28 de julio de 2017 a las 08:33
Oh i am guilty.... i have set my channel on a radio station from which i know they play 'a forest' at least once a day :)
Contestado por Drooch
el 7 de agosto de 2017 a las 20:05
It's not as simple as that. Transgender isn't a condition, it's a surgical process of having one's body mutilated to approximate the other gender, your chromosomes are still either male or female, and every one of your cells carry that chromosomal information. You cannot change your chromosomes, you cannot change your gender.
What may be real is the mental illness called Gender Dysphoria, where you feel like you should be the other gender. Whether slicing off body parts and pumping hormonal drugs is the compassionate thing to do to these people is hotly debated, as is whether or not taxpayers should fund such 'treatment'.
There's a political movement to silence these questions, but if we're to be truly compassionate to the unfortunate sufferers of Gender Dysphoria then we must ask them.
Contestado por Joe
el 8 de agosto de 2017 a las 05:24
No, that's transsexual- and you're right, it's not a condition, it's a way of life
Contestado por Joe
el 8 de agosto de 2017 a las 05:24
Lots of people are born in the wrong gender, sad, but true, and we need to respect that they recognise that
Contestado por Drooch
el 11 de agosto de 2017 a las 21:33
It's 'true' that they experience a desire to become the other gender, but to state that they're 'born in the wrong gender' is problematic. For example, how can a man with male chromosomes and a male brain be said to be 'in the wrong body'? On what basis is it 'wrong'?
Contestado por Dark_Sithlord
el 12 de agosto de 2017 a las 04:00
Good points. As a society, we've grown exponentially in the past 3 decades since this movie came out. It's mindblowing to see the times my teenage kids live in compared to my teen years in the 80s.
Contestado por Joe
el 12 de agosto de 2017 a las 04:34
It's not problematic- if people think of themselves as the other gender... well, they know themselves better than we do