We are over the 37th year and monthth anniversary of the release of the fantasy film, “The Princess Bride.” Who is Dread Pirate Roberts and could he really be approaching the age of 70, like some of our biggest youth idols of the 1970s and 1980s? Or, are some of our iconic film and music icons more like Dread Pirate Roberts than we like to think — replaced every decade by a new, young Dread Pirate Roberts look-alike to play the Dread Pirate “person”? That way, the film tells us, the name of Dread Pirate Roberts can continue to be attached to the ever-changing face of a new character or person. I wonder about the Dread Pirate Roberts model and its use in the same look throughout the entertainment industry.
As Sardenberg tells us, the personal is political; therefore, her experience – or mine – of herself embodied as a woman may not be just a mystery either sui generisbut perhaps, rather, something closer to archetypal. And, as I, myself, approach a big birthday in the coming years soon, I wonder what such a model of entertainment glamor would say about our society, social order, and values? Are we so focused on youth that some of our heroes in Hollywood, Bollywood, music, and elsewhere have to be changed, like character names, by the same people every ten years to maintain the illusion (shall I say, illusion?) of eternal youth? Is our desire for youth related to our ability to dream of youth in our lives; or does it reflect something more sinister, say, an obsession with starkly dressed teenagers in superhero films, dance films, or on stage at concerts?
There are important books in social theory (as Anthony Giddens calls it) such as: On the Moral Genealogy by Frederick Nietzsche; or In Grammatology by Jacques Derrida (with a translation by Spivak and an introduction by Butler). Maybe it’s time to think “On Gerontology”. Perhaps we can find more appropriate pursuits in a moral, ethical, civilized society than the dangerous blurring of the line between desiring youth in our old age, and what is illegal and irrational in a civilized society, the desire of young people.
Cultivating innocence in young people, and empowering them to lead civilized, legitimate lives, is very “rational” in both Nietzschean and Kantian terms in the general sense of desire in relation to first-order needs, and philosophy or reason as it relates to higher thought or the application of principles; and “interests, desires, and needs” (see p. 169) as defined and related in a more complex way than thinking only in terms of first-order needs.
I would say that it is unlikely that the obsession with youth – in the form just described – would be sanctioned by Protestantism or Roman Catholicism. And the Judaism of the Rabbis was not acknowledged; six to seven legal schools of thought in Islam; and, I did not try to suggest, the range of Eastern Orthodox Christian churches and communities in the Mediterranean, the Middle East and North Africa, Eastern Europe, and Russia. So, why is it so common today?
That is, we have lost our roots, somehow, in our quest for (eternal) youth. Dread Pirate Roberts is just one example – and a method – in our search. Ponce de Leon, according to legend, was focused on the search for eternal youth in the sense of a fountain or elixir to fight aging in the body (and it turns out that it was not Ponce de Leon, according to history, but someone else). Our fascination with the days of youth, at least, in the historical focus of the Bolshevik movement on the same (and vice versa. ancient principles of all kinds, and its recent attempt to control the youth); and the shift from pre-Vichy France that emphasized the authority of adults (see pages 56, 154-155) to the post-World War II global emphasis on youth rights (among other rights). So, we have the antecedents of this addiction. And there is nothing wrong with emphasizing the rights of young people. However, looking for something other than watching our youth on television and in music videos go in ways that could harm them decades later is not and is not necessary for the development of our civilization. Indeed, such youth may not have a say in the matter of (e) artistic wisdom as children, or even as teenagers. I’m not saying that I’m not against dancing; youth development; or the liberty of youth, properly and lawfully exercised.
That said, turning to Gaga Feminism, which somehow artfully and disrupts existing categories, might be taking it too far. That happens so much that it encourages the youth to play, on the stage or on the stage, such distractions so that the older audience can live freely with them. Teens who make their own creativity, anger, and joy are useful. However, 1970s-style experiments dreamed up by adults (sometimes generations who were adults in the 1970s) and focused on youth are, in many cases, unhealthy. And these are not new methods; such experiments were carried out (violently) in earlier times, cultures, and civilizations and have been largely discredited as those cultures have fallen. We will not raise ourselves by drowning, again, in the era of crimes against children, the elderly, the elderly, or, in another way, the damaged (or “degenerate”). Throwing our youth into it to appease our views is not a good way.
The search may be good, that is, looking for something legitimate and encouraging than older people looking for youth to live young. Instead, an emphasis on happy aging may be appropriate. Perhaps a shift in focus is needed on the moderation of elders (except for the extremes that allow them to be despots over individual, young lives). Maybe we can try to find a healthy alternative that lifts everyone up without destroying our youth. Few societies seem to want to go along with it, but a quick examination of the practice of human sacrifice suggests that it was a secret and very hidden practice, however, involving traditions in ancient history at least (more on this topic in the future. opportunity). Perhaps this specific, artistic and symbolic form of sacrifice for young people is inappropriate and unworthy as a defining feature of our civilization. A culture of such focus is not what we want to be remembered for.
Returning to the bottom line of this article, I would like to state that we do not want to be called, years or millennia from now: the The Descendant Generationi Generation of Logan’s Run, or i Gaga Generation (although the latter has a nice feminist ring to it). I would like to be remembered as World Civilizationor The Wilsonian Peaceor Arts, Sciences, and Religions in Close Connectionor Culture and Beauty, Biological Law (where almost everyone deliberately embraces law and order in daily activities rather than using any repressive law where rules are broken). Any of these would be fine in my opinion. Or perhaps we can be called A Generation of Individual Self-Control and Civilized Freedom.
Like many others before me, “I have a dream.” It is not a planned degeneration (taken as a dynamic act) of our youth; remove from all real interactions; and the disruption, confusion, and harm (morally, if not) to all generations in doing so. Similarly, while the opinions of the youth are important to consider, sometimes a little wisdom and knowledge of the elders is also important. But those adults should behave themselves and restrain themselves in their actions and criticisms, not the very people who sell hedonism and social control to children. We can tell the difference. That is, we don’t just upset the apple cart in our preparations to promote (sometimes very dangerous) youth culture to the exclusion of all else. Somehow, in this cultural correction we place the sky (Tengri?) below the Earth (Lady Madonna?) rather than above it; or that science and the “Big Bang” are incompatible with, or did not arise from, Creation.
Further Studies in E-International Relations
Source link
