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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 8247820" data-attributes="member: 59082">Ha, true.On the other hand, I think many of &quot;our&quot; generation (I think you are X?) have a bigger case of puer aeternus than previous generations, and that at least part of that is healthy: keeping child-like wonder alive, being interested in new things, still playing. The alternate is the kind of atrophied, desiccated adulthood that, well, has given us the world we live in. I'm thinking of Ursula K Le Guin's excellent defenses of fantasy from the 70s, when she spoke of the value of imagination and remaining playful. As she put it, &quot;the healthy adult is the child who survived.&quot;Of course the problem is avoiding the &quot;Peter Pan syndrome,&quot; which is embodied by your gif.My daughters are now 12 and 16 and while most of our cultural references and interests diverge, I do find that there are some commonalities that exist that wouldn't if I hadn't kept my interest in new things alive. They tease me about my limited smartphone skills, but on the other hand my 16-year old and I enjoy listening to downtempo electronica while I'm teaching her to drive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 8247820, member: 59082"] Ha, true. On the other hand, I think many of "our" generation (I think you are X?) have a bigger case of puer aeternus than previous generations, and that at least part of that is healthy: keeping child-like wonder alive, being interested in new things, still [I]playing. [/I]The alternate is the kind of atrophied, desiccated adulthood that, well, has given us the world we live in. I'm thinking of Ursula K Le Guin's excellent defenses of fantasy from the 70s, when she spoke of the value of imagination and remaining playful. As she put it, "the healthy adult is the child who survived." Of course the problem is avoiding the "Peter Pan syndrome," which is embodied by your gif. My daughters are now 12 and 16 and while most of our cultural references and interests diverge, I do find that there are some commonalities that exist that wouldn't if I hadn't kept my interest in new things alive. They tease me about my limited smartphone skills, but on the other hand my 16-year old and I enjoy listening to downtempo electronica while I'm teaching her to drive. [/QUOTE]

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