i was in a car crash, or was it the war? but I've never been quite the same.
I'm never sure how I feel about studies like this. I definitely spent at least 3-4 hours a day watching television starting in middle school - a number that's gone up with time - and starting late middle school, probably 2 hours on the computer (that number has obviously gone up to like, twelve since starting college). And I'm not an obese, promiscuous smoker.
But the list of harmful influences: films? magazines? music? How many kids these days spend time doing something else? With that broad a sampling we may as well blame their ills on being American. Except I find it hard to believe that kids in other countries aren't crazy into electronic media too - they just spend more time in cram school.
But then again it's true that I didn't watch much television before I moved to the states. Maybe an hour a day when I was ten, less before that. Very limited computer time. My mother thinks not being exposed to constant marketing was good for me - not that Indonesian warungs don't have gigantic plastic ads as roofs and walls, but it wasn't as all-encompassing as it is here.
Whatever. I usually think adults think too hard about children in general without bothering to develop relationships with their own children (the only children they really have the opportunity to know, in other words, they don't bother with) or looking at themselves with any hint of self-awareness. I'm really into blaming parents, though. It's kind of my gig. I think part of the responsibility of growing up is getting over your own shit so you can actually raise another human being.
I bring another AMV. Except it's not really an AMV because none of the video has been cut - it's just been "synced" to the music. I think it's actually very good (falls apart at the end, but oh well). I've been meaning to see City of God for a long time... maybe I should try to watch it this winter.
Video: Cidade de Deus (City of God); Audio: "Down in the Park" - Marilyn Manson (Gary Numan cover); By pphoee.
But the list of harmful influences: films? magazines? music? How many kids these days spend time doing something else? With that broad a sampling we may as well blame their ills on being American. Except I find it hard to believe that kids in other countries aren't crazy into electronic media too - they just spend more time in cram school.
But then again it's true that I didn't watch much television before I moved to the states. Maybe an hour a day when I was ten, less before that. Very limited computer time. My mother thinks not being exposed to constant marketing was good for me - not that Indonesian warungs don't have gigantic plastic ads as roofs and walls, but it wasn't as all-encompassing as it is here.
Whatever. I usually think adults think too hard about children in general without bothering to develop relationships with their own children (the only children they really have the opportunity to know, in other words, they don't bother with) or looking at themselves with any hint of self-awareness. I'm really into blaming parents, though. It's kind of my gig. I think part of the responsibility of growing up is getting over your own shit so you can actually raise another human being.
I bring another AMV. Except it's not really an AMV because none of the video has been cut - it's just been "synced" to the music. I think it's actually very good (falls apart at the end, but oh well). I've been meaning to see City of God for a long time... maybe I should try to watch it this winter.
Click to viewVideo: Cidade de Deus (City of God); Audio: "Down in the Park" - Marilyn Manson (Gary Numan cover); By pphoee.