Life as We Know It
Being young is really quite a gift despite the fact that most young people don't appreciate their youth until they get old. Today youth is glorified beyond anything I would have thought possible when I was young. Young people influence what most of us see and hear in our daily lives; music, movies, televisions, ad campaigns are all influenced by people under thirty.
When I grew up I was eager to learn, or at least attempt to learn, the wisdom of the older people in my life. The titans of business were always older than sixty and they had cut their teeth on garnering experience the old fashioned way, by starting at the bottom and working their way up to the top. This new generation of young people feel that if your are older than thirty you have nothing to contribute. This mentality, this clearly short sighted view, rests on an audience that is between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five, yet the majority of these young people receive their money from the older ones, the boomers. My generation, the boomers, are the richest, gaining on being the wisest, and are definitely the most experienced group of people in this country yet we are scorned by the youthful in this country unless we can contribute our dollars to them.
Experience and wisdom comes with getting older and the youth culture believes that everything is just about them. Life for most Americans is better than most of us can imagine. People from all over the world marvel at our lifestyles and yet we accept our bountiful lifestyles as something we deserve rather than something we should appreciate. Youth! The youth of today has been gifted with too much too soon and their naivete is reflected in their assumptions about the value of an experienced eye.
The possession of youth is one of the most wonderful experiences in life, but youth is not the only thing in life. There really is not enough money in the world, if offered, that would convince me to go back to a time when I was twenty, just to be young all over again and experience life in the way that only young people can. When I was young, I enjoyed my youth, but I now appreciate my position as an older person, a person with wisdom and vision, a person with enough experience that ensures I'll never make the same type of short-sighted mistakes of my youth.
Hollywood, the land of youth, should look at the number of movies that have been made recently that are remakes of movies and television shows that were made when I was young. The majority have failed and without the sizzle of noise and violence, few movies that have been made have real content and most slip from memory after a day or two. The old masters in Hollywood made films that made people's hearts race, or men and women cry. How many young film makers have that poetry in their souls, their hearts tuned to an audience and their need to sometimes think and validate their humanity?
Of course there are creative geniuses in Hollywood today, but far too many of the films released today are carbon copies of one another. Action adventure seems to be the only avenue of entertainment and people over fifty and what interests them, are largely ignored. The pie, you know the one, that pie that drives Hollywood should realize that the over fifty crowd has a lot of money to spend on entertainment. Yeah, the over fifty crowd forks over a lot of dough for the young ones to be entertained but most of us know that we are a large audience waiting to be serviced, and not by the pablum that flows out of Hollywood as entertainment.
When I grew up I was eager to learn, or at least attempt to learn, the wisdom of the older people in my life. The titans of business were always older than sixty and they had cut their teeth on garnering experience the old fashioned way, by starting at the bottom and working their way up to the top. This new generation of young people feel that if your are older than thirty you have nothing to contribute. This mentality, this clearly short sighted view, rests on an audience that is between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five, yet the majority of these young people receive their money from the older ones, the boomers. My generation, the boomers, are the richest, gaining on being the wisest, and are definitely the most experienced group of people in this country yet we are scorned by the youthful in this country unless we can contribute our dollars to them.
Experience and wisdom comes with getting older and the youth culture believes that everything is just about them. Life for most Americans is better than most of us can imagine. People from all over the world marvel at our lifestyles and yet we accept our bountiful lifestyles as something we deserve rather than something we should appreciate. Youth! The youth of today has been gifted with too much too soon and their naivete is reflected in their assumptions about the value of an experienced eye.
The possession of youth is one of the most wonderful experiences in life, but youth is not the only thing in life. There really is not enough money in the world, if offered, that would convince me to go back to a time when I was twenty, just to be young all over again and experience life in the way that only young people can. When I was young, I enjoyed my youth, but I now appreciate my position as an older person, a person with wisdom and vision, a person with enough experience that ensures I'll never make the same type of short-sighted mistakes of my youth.
Hollywood, the land of youth, should look at the number of movies that have been made recently that are remakes of movies and television shows that were made when I was young. The majority have failed and without the sizzle of noise and violence, few movies that have been made have real content and most slip from memory after a day or two. The old masters in Hollywood made films that made people's hearts race, or men and women cry. How many young film makers have that poetry in their souls, their hearts tuned to an audience and their need to sometimes think and validate their humanity?
Of course there are creative geniuses in Hollywood today, but far too many of the films released today are carbon copies of one another. Action adventure seems to be the only avenue of entertainment and people over fifty and what interests them, are largely ignored. The pie, you know the one, that pie that drives Hollywood should realize that the over fifty crowd has a lot of money to spend on entertainment. Yeah, the over fifty crowd forks over a lot of dough for the young ones to be entertained but most of us know that we are a large audience waiting to be serviced, and not by the pablum that flows out of Hollywood as entertainment.
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