KylieDog said:
No, buts its one mans opinion. One with a conflict of interest really seeing as he wrote fairy tales. Seems most of the adult world disagrees with him anyway which is why his books are always in the childrens section. I mean he basically says "Ingore what others think" which is what you tell children when they have to deal with a socially bad thing, then you get older and realise you can't have that attitude or you'll get nowhere in life, not going to land many jobs dressing like a tramp and not caring what the employer thinks of it. I wonder if he would crap himself into a nappy and use his own quote to defend it. "When I was ten, I crapped my pants in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I crap them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."" |
KylieDog, you could not have missed that point more spectacularly if you launched yourself out of a catapult over it. Over it and into the Sun.
The point is not "Don't care what others think." It's "don't be preoccupied with looking like a grownup". The entire summary of his quote come down to that 'adult' is a descriptor and not a qualitative modifier.
The world tends to agree with him - many adults read literature meant for children and teenagers. Do you have any idea how many women twice the high school age read Twilight? How many adults read Harry Potter? How many still read the Chronicles of Narnia?
Pretending that being "childish" in design is somehting to be ashamed of, or that one "grows beyond it" as one matures is asinine and ridiculous.
I'd argu with you more thoroughly but I want ot see what you have to say now that you've had the point laid out in front of you; I will say, though, tat you shouldn't go in looking for a point that isn ot there, otherwise you adress nothing.
