So I have been recognizing recently, our society loves immaturity. Do I think I am mature? No, not completely. I believe we are all mature in different areas. But what I have found disturbing is society's obsession with immaturity.
It is in the cartoons. It is in the movies. It is in the comic strips. It is in the advertising. We laugh at immaturity. I am not talking about immaturity in children. They are "supposed" to be immature; they are children. High schoolers and junior highers and college students are all learning how to be mature. In fact, the maturation process should never stop. But when we are entertained by immaturity, then I worry.
It is in the cartoons.
- It is supposed to be funny when someone is acting in a childish way, like getting worked up over something small (a brother saying something harmless, for example) and throwing a fit. This is not attractive. This is disturbing.
It is in the movies.
- It is supposed to be funny when people do not have the maturity to handle various situations, such a breaking up with a boyfriend/girlfriend (screaming, yelling, shifting blame, lying, etc.) or learning some piece of upsetting news (not like death, more like, the car is broken). Or it is supposed to be funny when people cannot relate well to others and they make fun of them instead (their language, clothes, mannerisms, whatever).
It is in the advertising.
- It is supposed to be funny when some lady on a radio commercial can't handle a certain question and she "flies off the handle," screaming. Or it is supposed to be funny when someone else compares getting rid of an old car to getting a divorce ("You never do what I want! You are good for nothing!").
Why should we be entertained by this? If we were to see these things in person, we would not be entertained. We would be appalled and/or saddened. Things are bad enough in real life. Yet if it is in the media, we are supposed to be entertained by it. Don't be a brainless observer. Decide things for youself.
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1 comment:
Hmmm.
It's interesting that... well, I think it's a valid humour - I don't think the humour is a problem exactly. I can pretend to whine, and you'll probably laugh at it, depending on how well I'm doing at it ;)
But the interesting thing to me is that we think it's funny ("haha, that's so silly, he's acting like a two year old") and then we do it.
So we laugh at it like we would never do that, but we would and do.
Or, as you say, our society does.
It's sorta what the chapel speaker was talking about... we don't so much *whine* anymore. We have more subtle ways to do it. Like "punishing" others, as he put it.
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