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Changing opinion - kids…

// May 9th, 2009 // Random Stuff

No, I’ve not gone mental and decided I want one/many of the little creatures - HOWEVER - for some time I’ve held the opinion that kids today are very lucky. They have playstations to make them stupid and unhealthy, they have junk food to make them fat and unhealthy, they have political correctness so that they can get away with murder while being unhealthy… It seems like todays generation of young people are truly blessed. If albeit unhealthy.

However, that said I’ve just been on The Facebook generally nosing around and a friend of mine has posted a few photos of his kids - so I thought “awww… cute - and good photo.” and clicked to take a closer look. MY GOD those are cute kids… but he has a whole album full of them - this isn’t necessarily a bad thing as they are, again, cute kids, BUT, it does allow you to see how those children have grown and looked appallingly cute pretty much since they left the birth canal! Again, not such a bad thing, until you realise this will continue well into their late teens.

Do you know the kind of stupid shit that kids do before they learn to not do stupid shit? The kind of appalling badness (and madness) that at the time the average 12 year old thinks is hip and cool? All of it, ALL OF IT, caught on camera for the world to later look at on Flickr (or whatever Flickr will be called in 20 years). 

Even MY parents have a few photos of me scattered around … and over the years have tried their hardest (and succeeded in most cases) to make me blush with photos of me looking retarded as an 8 year old - can you imagine how easy the revolution of digital photography is going to make it for parents of the future to fucking anihilate their children through embarrassment? I’ll tell you how easy - they won’t even need to try. It’s going to be like shooting fish in a barrel. Kids of the future will have no girlfriends. Digital photography will spell the end of civilisation.

My god I’m glad I grew up in an analogue era. And have managed to accidently burn most of the photos ever taken of me.