That was a time when boys were allowed to be boys and girls were allowed to be girls. And both sexes learned how to be adults by spending much of their time alone with other children (sometimes even outdoors!); learning how to cope, working out friendships and conflicts without minute-by-minute adult-controlled scripts and supervision…just like life had been for millenia. After 15 or so years of it, young peole were ready to marry, raise families and, a rare few, to invent the future. It seemed to work out pretty well for a couple of hundred years.
Last night in a restaurant, I was struck by a young man with an attractive young girl eating at a table a few yards away. They didn’t speak. The man was intent on his cell phone, spending 90% of his time texting away; the young woman likewise. Not, I suspected, to each other.
Other than the fact that the young man had shorter hair and was bigger, they both might both have been women. I call it Facebook America; where women are women, and men are women too. In this America, men don’t solve problems, and women don’t raise families; but for both sexes, the outlets to exchange inanities and whine to hundreds of other inane whiners are limitless.
