once in my sixth hour we were talking about 9/11 and i announced very loudly “more people died in hurricane maria than in 9/11 but nobody really cares because you can’t use hurricanes to justify imperialism” and then not even 5 seconds later i said “yeehaw my beets.”
What appears to be happening here is that kids are learning a different definition of being Adult than what we were taught.
When you grow up, you won’t like toys and having fun and defying authority, you’ll become a part of the system and you’ll realise that’s what maturity is. That’s what I was taught.
Instead, they’re understanding that you can be as silly and childlike as you want with the things that don’t matter, so long as you take seriously the moral issues and actual responsibilities you have, a way of understanding the world I usually sum up as “you can buy as much Lego as you want, so long as you pay your bills first”
