I don’t have kids and I don’t really much like or understand most kids these days — or at least the current crop of 12-20 year olds I encounter almost every day.
Youth really is wasted on the young.
Though I’ve noticed a new and growing subculture around me — I just didn’t know they had a name. Thanks to Trevor at The Will to Exist for filling me in on Emos — what they are and where they come from:
These are the kids who replaced goths in the pyramid of hopeless self-pity and absolute despondence and helplessness that we are creating for our future generations of leaders. Emos are completely unable to deal with reality, because they live in a fantasy world that is emotionally unhealthy and, not surprisingly, devoid of real logic. The world of an emo is a dark one filled with tears and no real direction unless you count the downward spiral into death as a direction.
Yeah. That’s them. They’re at the supermarket, at the book store, and they own the coffee shops. Here’s the wikipedia definition of an emo.
And Trevor is dead-on-target as to where they come from: our public school systems.
The public schools aren’t all bad, but most of them are completely mediocre. That’s why we’re somewhere in the bottom half of industrialized nations when it comes to properly educating children.
Too many bureaucrats and not enough real teachers. The few real teachers still left ride the thin line between insanity and censure by the bureaucrats daily.
I suppose the point of blogs is to raise your blood pressure- but it seems weird to get upset about kids you have to learn about through wikipedia.
So they are overly sensitive and think that everyone in their high school is a jerk- well, they’re probably right.
Robbie, please……… you are talking about teenagers. As someone who was born at the tailend of the baby boom (1959), I have seen each generation since I can recall with different groups of angst-ridden or rebellious or just plain stoopid kids. Most grow up eventually to be somewhat productive adults. The rest of them end up in jail, on welfare, or in politics. Don’t get your knickers in a twist about this latest batch. This, too, shall pass and another generation will replace them with something else to get the “grownups” all atwitter…..
Your description of them, and especially the coffee shop comment, just makes me chuckle, as I recall that particular South Park episode.
Emo is just another media term for the recycling of trends. first it was the 80’s are cool, then the 70’s are cool again, which is really a hard one for me. anyone who was alive in the 70’s and remembers what they really wore and how the hair was…it was dreadful.!! funny how time plays tricks on our memories.. now emo is the new goth, which really I don’t think that is accurate. I thought emo was just underground indy stuff based on music. whereas goth from the early 80’s was all about big hair, black, and the cure. anyway goes back to the theory of all the original ideas are used up. now we just recycle with a new twist and call it original. but yeah liked mentioned, not a big deal. if this is all we had to worry about, man life would be sweet indeed.
i seem to remember a “Punch an EMO day” a while back…
http://www.caughtinthecrossfire.com/music/news/1386
of course if they are all depressed and what not, they probably wont fight back. Well, unless they havent been taking their behavioral meds. In any event, punching an EMO would be about as much fun as clubbing a baby seal.
As an ex-goth, the definition of emo is bears a striking resemblance to what it was like when I was in my “dark” phase. Rest assured, that we have grown up to being self-sufficient, responsible, productive adults with real values. When you are a teenager, you start to question who you are and that CAN be emotional. The overall sense is like being lost. I’ve found that people who have gone through this self-discovery are often more confident and stable as adults. Often the cause is not the school system but an unhappy family life.
To the person who commented that emo being goth is not accurate, they are talking about the mentality, not the music scene or fashion.