Spectacle...

Ok kiddos, were gonna talk for a minute about the state of the next generation.

cause its a bit scary frankly.

no, im not talking about the way they dress. everyone dresses stupidly in their youth

case in point:

its also not their stupidity, i think my generation was plenty stupid before we all grew up and im sure the same can be applied to any generation really.

hell some generations dont STOP being stupid

but thats another post entirely.

what scares me about kids today is the mentality.

all the ceremony is gone, all the spectacle.

what really brought this to mind was a blurb post i saw earlier in the day on aolradioblog.com

[in refrence to the topic: 10 Worst album covers of 2009 (so far)] RogerTea said "Who cares about album covers in this day and age? In this age of downloaded digital music album art is an outdated concept - as is the concept of the album itself."

now this disturbed me greatly.

and my reply was this "#19, you officially are the last straw that broke the camel's back, my hope for this new generation.

your comment is perfectly in line with the thought of shutting down libraries and killing print media. if you would have been alive in an age where there was spectacle in going to the record store, and sitting in your room alone listening to the whole LP while you carefully examined the art and lyrics that accompanied it you would think differently. its called appreciating art, try it some time."

Now contrary to popular belief, i dont always go flying off the handle and post replies like this.

it does however scare me, because as this is starting to become the thoughts of a new generation, what other ceremony will be cast aside?

hell, voting is already a dwindiling past time, as are things like dating.

yes, dating.

kids these days... its all about their hooking up, and then one day they will wake up at 30 have no idea what a real relationship is like.

now i should take this time to mention, im no old fogey, im only 24 and i still find some of this a bit shocking.

so in closing all i have to say is this:

heaven forbid we wake up one day, and all the Van Goghs have been replaced by photoshoped images and vectors, all the books replaced by blogs, all the LP's into 99 cent singles, and all the past great mediums of human expression in this world discarded because what is modern is "better" solely because its modern.

that and:

am i being rediculous?