Sep 15 2007
A Little Nonsense…
I was enjoying a weekend watching the recently released Animaniacs series on DVD with my own kids, when I started pondering the sad state of contemporary children’s television. There is a real quality that old classics like Looney Tunes had that seems to have been lost as time goes on. I get a sick feeling in my stomach when I see the culture very young children have developed recently, and I realize there is a great virtue being lost in today’s world… silliness.
Animaniacs was a unique flash-back to classic Looney Tunes style cartoons, which is why I bought it for my own kids. One of the best parts about Animanacs and Looney Tunes is they appeal to both kids and adults. There is are a lot of jokes in those cartoons only adults can get, and others only kids can laugh at. I love watching old cartoons I as an adult finding new jokes I couldn’t catch as a child. I also enjoy seeing what my kids will laugh at.
Children are being forced to grow up faster and faster… well, let me rephrase that. Children are being forced to give up their innocence sooner and sooner. The reason I make that distinction is because children aren’t really “growing up” fast at all these days. An eighteen year-old these days is much less equipped for life than an eighteen year-old fifty years ago. It is the fun and innocence of childhood itself we are losing.
It came out really well Chris.
