Sunday, May 18, 2008

The Things they Teach our Kids!

How can you not be appalled at the fact that the media teaches our kids to run away from confronting their fears, dumbing them into a life of perpetual wuss-ery.

I mean, how can you sit back and take it when 4 out of 5 kids (of a sample set of 5 kids) claim to like a character on a popular show who keeps running away as fast as he possibly can rather than standing and facing his fears. His apology...he's really good at running away...so why not? When you can run as fast as that, it'd be suicidal not to.

On the other hand, the kids boo another character who is as tenacious as they come, never gives up chasing his elusive goal, never tires from the sheer effort he needs to put into it, he manages to live despite a series of potentially fatal accidents whilst chasing his dream, has complete mastery over a series of sophisticated gadgets that help him in his quest and is in my opinion, simply heroic.

Is it just our kids or just me? If its just me, then did the media get to our generation too? Come on...you'd root for the Coyote over the Road Runner anyday, right?

1 comments:

Aditya Nair said...

An amazing astute observation.