Why "the prosperous" are doomed

09/27/2010

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The most important section of this series. Creative play fosters the development pf critical thinking (REQUIRED TO KNOW YOUR BEING FUCKED!!!!). Those kids who had no toys and had to use their imagination learn how to THINK. Spoiled brats learn nothing except how to remember and agree. The first will be last. 
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Kids would rather be famous me-tards instead of intelligent (why we are surely fucked!!!)

09/20/2010

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From the Gaurdian 

if you were watching TV sometime in the mid-1980s, you might remember a little girl who won a competition. She was on a show called Saturday Superstore and sang a song called It's 'Orrible Being In Love When You're 8½. You'll remember it if you saw it, and if you were a child and had eyes you'll have seen it, because there was nothing else to watch on Saturday mornings, except TV-AM and racing from Doncaster.

The reason it made such an impression was that she seemed at the time anomalous, an apparently normal eight-year-old with a bizarre desire – to sing on television. There were abnormal eight-year-olds like Bonnie Langford, who looked as if they ran on batteries and talked about "the business" and did the splits while being interviewed by adult talkshow hosts. There were child movie stars like Michael J Fox. But Claire Usherwas none of these. After winning the contest, her song was released and she appeared on Top Of The Pops, where they put her in a school scarf and what looked like her mother's high heels, just in case you missed the point: that a child "pop star", a child caught up in the processes of fame, could only properly be presented as burlesque.

It's taken for granted these days that children aren't what they were. They're fatter, taller, louder. They are, thanks to the creation of the tween advertising market, more sharply aware of self-image. (They always had one; it just wasn't shaped by focus groups at Topshop.) Above all, they are subject to the corrupting influence of celebrity culture.

Last year, a survey found that the top three career aspirations for five- to 11-year-olds in Britain were sports star, pop star and actor, compared with teacher, banker and doctor 25 years ago. The number of child performance licences, issued by councils to pupils who miss three or more days of school per half-year to perform, increased, in five years, by 80%. At Stagecoach, the performing arts school franchise, student numbers leapt from 12,000 in 1999 to 36,000 today. As Rachel, a character in the TV show Glee, says, "Nowadays being anonymous is worse than being poor." That the show is mocking her doesn't undermine its belief in the statement.

It's partly just fashion: when children wanted to be doctors it wasn't because they were genuinely more interested in the function of the spleen than they are now; you go where the respect is and the respect has gone to some weird places. Sometime in the last decade, the relationship between cause and effect collapsed and put everyone above a certain level of fame on a more or less equal footing. Once behind the velvet rope, talent show winner Leona Lewis, footballer Theo Walcott and reality star Kerry Katona were as likely to be lumped together and invited to Downing Street as Ann Widdecombe was to appear on Celebrity Fit Club. Fame qualifies you for everything, like being a toff once did, I suppose, except no one wanted them on the side of their lunchbox.

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