Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Degradation of the Gen-Z

I guess kids began to lose their creativeness when they hit Generation Y, but that's majorly the fault of corporate workings. As kids we heavily sought out toys to satisfy our hunger for the concept of fun. What happened to the good ol' days when kids needed nothing but...really their own bodies and maybe a couple of pebbles. They could play a whole day just like that, but not so much the Gen-Y kids, and certainly not the Gen-Z brats.

So ok, our generation wasn't too bad if you compare us to the 3 to 13 year-olds today. We could have lots of fun with few provisions back in the day. Give us a ball, we'll play four squares, give us some chalk and a rock we'd play hopscotch. But the children growing up in our ever so materialistic world aujourd'hui are dependent on tangible goods. It supports the economy but at the expense of their soul. These so-called "Digital Natives" are overwhelmed by mass media, crude music and faux glamour brought on by the entertainment behemoths like Disney. The company has lost sight of its grass root intentions, now clouded in a smoke of scandalous engineering of "rock stars" (who really none of them performs rock music). A superficial mess is what they've created, poisoning the minds of tweens and robbing them of creativity, naiveté and most of all the hearts that children should hold.

3 comments:

  1. hi5 for ppl like us, ones who grew up by roaming the neighbourhood!

    I clicked on ur ads =)

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  2. Tell me about it, kids these days need some kind of technology to have fun. Back in my day, all you needed was a ball, some t-shirt for posts and you got a soccer game.

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