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Originally Posted by Reznorite420
Better yet, just delete this topic...you're the one with the messed up mind, my friend.
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Brodie, I got yer back man.
You've hit a topic close to my heart.
It's my opinion that the raise in average life expectancy and improvement in general quality of life has led us to segregate our narratives: flashy for the adults, and sappy-crappy for the kiddies. Let's face it. The average Mini-Van Soccer Mom just doesn't read
All Quiet on the Western Front to her children as a warning against the horrors of war.
Yep, Narrative is pulling its punches now (in the category of children's literature.) It's a material world and we're all material girls -- or boys --
and a "popular" story now is one with a bank roll behind it. Example? Disney.
OH HOW I YEARN FOR THE GOOD OL' DAYS... when illiteracy and religion ran rampant and a GOOD story had a moral and some supernatural Booga-Booga in it that were guaranteed to scared the holy hotpants off the little ankle-biters. **If you can't get the children to behave, then TRAUMATIZE the little buggers.**
<sigh> Now it's milk and cookies. If you really wanna be disturbed, you've gotta watch Entertainment Tonight....
--kyabetsu
Oh, and incidentally, Lewis Carroll WAS an opium addict, but he was an opium addict living in the late 1800's, so that's ok. He was also a Mathematics professor -- which goes a long way to explain the weirdness and the chessmen....