keenmaster486 wrote:It ties into the general disrespect for kids these days. […]
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It ties into the general disrespect for kids these days.
They think Keen is for 12-year-olds like it was in the 90’s, and maybe it is.
But the prevailing opinion seems to be that kids are too stupid to understand anything that isn’t “on their level.”
So they try to make something that they think kids will understand, but they only ever succeed in making something best suited
to that one obnoxious 8-year-old in the playground who has the intellectual ambition of an orangutan.
Hmm, this gave me to think. I was about seven years old when I started writing programs in Visual Basic 1.x on my second-hand 286,
before that I had got my father's old 8-Bit machine with datasette drive and a a dozen assemblers, interpreters of BASIC, Fortran and such.
That being said, at the time I never felt very intelligent anyhow. I was more into novels and phantasy worlds than anything logical. And classic video games, of course.
My younger sister on the other hand, could walk, speak and read almost perfectly at age four onwards. By comparison, I still had trouble with this at age 5-6.
Whenever places of water were around, I magically lost balance and fell into them. 😊
So what makes me wonder: Are current generations of kids really intellectual impaired or are they (some) just behaving this way ?
Noticing all the younger kids in the tram talking about complicated school work, network managment, app development for android and iOS,
I can't help but feel like a relic from a civilisation long gone. Even though I'm not "old" judging by my birth date.
Edit: In other words, I wonder were this prevailing opinion about kids comes from. When I see video like this, it make me feel as if I was from a society 60 years ago or so.
Where are all the childish children gone that used to be all over the place ? The ones that were playing outside or with their sisters/parents/grandparents ?
From what I see, todays kids may be rude (not all), got anti-authoritarian education and are narcissistic sometimes (-> selfies, focus on their own portrayal).
But.. Apparently, that's not the whole story. They aren't dumb by any means. They do say what they think and stand up and protest if necessary (Friday for Future).
Another thing that I honour and respect is that they are brave enough to question old rules, for example why some should solely work for money.
These generations Y (Why ?) and Z may or may not be on the right track. Our world needs a change quickly, though, if we like to live peafulyly with each others in the future.
"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel
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