It's nice to know that you could still have the kind of childhood in the nineties that I enjoyed twenty years earlier! Today, everything is indeed planned, especially leisure time. Sometimes I ask (mostly young) parents why they are constantly helicoptering, why they are increasingly restricting their children's activity radius, why they are playing the parent taxi even though the route could be easily reached on foot or by bike. The answer always comes in two parts: it used to be much safer back then, and everything is completely different today. But is it really? Or does it have to be that way?
I looooong for those 90s summers, but I'm sure that's how everyone feels about their childhood. I swear, everything just felt different "back then" 😆
I'm so glad I got to experience childhood without the digital realm... I see kids walking around now looking all dazed and confused by like, 11, it's wild. I love the idea that it was just me and my bike, cruising around until dark, talking to myself—by myself ha
Omg I love this one! I need to read it again because this piece is so picturesque that it is difficult to summary it or tell someone what it is about without giving it them to read!
It isn’t just digitization that has hallowed out our once open caverns of sweet nothingness. Here in upstate NY we spent our summers pedaling from one ad hoc activity to another. Now our open fields and spaces are owned and segregated, destroyed one checkbook at a time by the wealthy who are not integrated into the community but still run everything. In other words, we are now living in little blocks of space, perhaps we’ve suburbanized . But it’s much worse than that, it is separation. Once connected by common concerns equaling community there’s only the wealthy, and may I add vain and sanctimonious NYyer, and the rest of us who cater to them. It’s ugly. And it’s not just here, in the west Californians have changed the entire nature of the northwest, Colorado, and Arizona. Illegal immigration has barely nudged the nature of our country compared to INTERNAL immigration.
It's nice to know that you could still have the kind of childhood in the nineties that I enjoyed twenty years earlier! Today, everything is indeed planned, especially leisure time. Sometimes I ask (mostly young) parents why they are constantly helicoptering, why they are increasingly restricting their children's activity radius, why they are playing the parent taxi even though the route could be easily reached on foot or by bike. The answer always comes in two parts: it used to be much safer back then, and everything is completely different today. But is it really? Or does it have to be that way?
I looooong for those 90s summers, but I'm sure that's how everyone feels about their childhood. I swear, everything just felt different "back then" 😆
I'm so glad I got to experience childhood without the digital realm... I see kids walking around now looking all dazed and confused by like, 11, it's wild. I love the idea that it was just me and my bike, cruising around until dark, talking to myself—by myself ha
Omg I love this one! I need to read it again because this piece is so picturesque that it is difficult to summary it or tell someone what it is about without giving it them to read!
Thanks so much, Marta. Glad you enjoyed it 🌞
It isn’t just digitization that has hallowed out our once open caverns of sweet nothingness. Here in upstate NY we spent our summers pedaling from one ad hoc activity to another. Now our open fields and spaces are owned and segregated, destroyed one checkbook at a time by the wealthy who are not integrated into the community but still run everything. In other words, we are now living in little blocks of space, perhaps we’ve suburbanized . But it’s much worse than that, it is separation. Once connected by common concerns equaling community there’s only the wealthy, and may I add vain and sanctimonious NYyer, and the rest of us who cater to them. It’s ugly. And it’s not just here, in the west Californians have changed the entire nature of the northwest, Colorado, and Arizona. Illegal immigration has barely nudged the nature of our country compared to INTERNAL immigration.