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Have we lost our sense of magic?
3 years ago
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I was watching Big Fish with my Mom and Dad last night. Do you know what I think is the problem with our era is? Ever since 9/11, we've lost our sense of magic.
Like, when I was a kid, my life was full of stories of good and evil spirits, dragons, other children, innocence. Even singing in my elementary school choir lifted up my soul. And not much does lift up my soul these days, or anyone else's. I don't mean everything was perfect, or that we don't view our childhoods through rose-tinted glasses. But even when I became a teen, my imagination and sense of spirit were alive and well.
With 9/11 and everything that's happened afterward, I feel like we've slowly become more cynical as a society. Sometimes worse. How do I put this?
A wise man I know once said that every unifying event in my generation and after has been a trauma. Beginning with 9/11, and continuing with the great recession, and now the pandemic. Whereas the unifying events of older generations were things like putting a man on the moon, seeing communism fall, etc. And part of me wonders if because of that, we've started seeing things we aren't supposed to.
7 year old girls did not know what porn was when I was a kid. The corporations and the government weren't trying so hard to control public thought in the name of safety. Teens (mostly) knew how to not make life-altering decisions and weren't pressured by outside forces to do so.
Even modern children's TV unnerves me a little. There was that pride parade on Blue's Clues, for instance. And maybe it's because I'm an adult, but I haven't heard of too many kids shows these days with a sense of magic. Part of the reason I've stayed on furaffinity is because it still has a sense of magic, even if it's not always in ways I'd like.
Anyway, those are my musings for tonight. Talk to you all soon.
Like, when I was a kid, my life was full of stories of good and evil spirits, dragons, other children, innocence. Even singing in my elementary school choir lifted up my soul. And not much does lift up my soul these days, or anyone else's. I don't mean everything was perfect, or that we don't view our childhoods through rose-tinted glasses. But even when I became a teen, my imagination and sense of spirit were alive and well.
With 9/11 and everything that's happened afterward, I feel like we've slowly become more cynical as a society. Sometimes worse. How do I put this?
A wise man I know once said that every unifying event in my generation and after has been a trauma. Beginning with 9/11, and continuing with the great recession, and now the pandemic. Whereas the unifying events of older generations were things like putting a man on the moon, seeing communism fall, etc. And part of me wonders if because of that, we've started seeing things we aren't supposed to.
7 year old girls did not know what porn was when I was a kid. The corporations and the government weren't trying so hard to control public thought in the name of safety. Teens (mostly) knew how to not make life-altering decisions and weren't pressured by outside forces to do so.
Even modern children's TV unnerves me a little. There was that pride parade on Blue's Clues, for instance. And maybe it's because I'm an adult, but I haven't heard of too many kids shows these days with a sense of magic. Part of the reason I've stayed on furaffinity is because it still has a sense of magic, even if it's not always in ways I'd like.
Anyway, those are my musings for tonight. Talk to you all soon.
But for sure, many of the shows we grew up with, they had magic, but with lackluster reboots, and off shoots, it just becomes really stale.
It is one of the reasons I try to animate my own cartoons (which I am learning takes longer than I thought)