Why is youth corrupted by age? Read on...?

Question

Why is youth corrupted by age? Why are the things of youth deemed by those that are older to be disdainful?

Take for example the predication of youth to play imaginary games, this is a pastime that takes hours and gives enormous enjoyment to those engaged in it. However the adults see it as merely useless child's play and something that must be discouraged (at all costs sometimes) in time in favour of "real world" activities.

Now people have said that it is because the "real world will chew them up and spit them out if this continues. THIS IS TOTAL BS!!! WE HELP TO CREATE THE WORLD WE LIVE IN, and as such we are the ones who will do they chewing and spitting.

So my question is, why do we see the things of youth as useless and immature? What is it that we are so afraid of?

Why do we not instead try to create a world where we value these things, where we cherish the parts of ourselves that create and wonder at the simplest things?

Serious answers only please.

Thanks.

P.S. Do not answer thing things like death and disease cause it, these things have been around since the beginning of time and have had no effect towards destroying and eradicating it to date, imagination and alike are still here still here. Poverty and abuse, yeah we make it happen or do nothing to stop it. In other words we are responsible for it.

Answer 1

I think the answer to this question is that as people get older they have more time to reflect on their life and the mistakes they have made. Since most people are cowards these days, they love to live in states of denial. Like you said, "real world will chew them up and spit them out if this continues", such thoughts are probably there to help them deny the fact that the blood of many children is on their own hands. Its easy to blame things on the world and not take responsibility. Many adults dont value things like imaginary games because there is no money to be made, unless you market it in a box of course. Money has taken over most age groups.

When I look at a child I recognize how amazing we humans are and I try not to think about the future world that awaits our children. However its hard to do in this day and age, you are right.... the blood of our children is on our hands.

Answer 2

i live in a world where these things are valued, it may be imaginary but i live there and maybe people in the "real world" have told me to stop imagining and dreaming, but in my imaginary world nobody told me that i have to change and i cant imagine.

just imagine a world with no bounds

i think the real reason people say such things is deep down they are resentful to those who told them to stop imagining and get in the real world. they just thought it was right to stop imagining and to stop others but i will continue to imagine and encourage it. maybe just maybe i can get a few people to start imagining again or never stop and just maybe the world might be that much better if only for an instant but i know i cause that instant of change and just maybe they might do the same.

Answer 3

you may think people look at it as useless and immature. but not everyone thinks like that.

for those who think that way, maybe they are too consumed and overwhelmed by the real world to stop by and think of the little things. in their minds, big things = happiness.

it's good that you value the simple things that prove your worth as a person. maybe you yourself can't see that still a lot of people think like you do. but you should also accept that you can't change everybody.

Answer 4

A childs mind is like a sponge, it loves to try new things and use their imaginations and dreams, as you get older those get shattered by others who have closed their minds to experimentations...
Thats why I refuse to grow up, 48 and still counting...

Answer 5

If youth were not eradicated we would have no progress.
If everyone sat around and played pretend all day we would have no one curing diseases, no one saving lives, no one making progress.
To move into the future, you have to grow up. Youth is a stage of life, not a permanent fixture.

Answer 6

Youth is corrupted, not 'by' age, but rather 'at' an age when they cease to ask questions of others, and commence to answer Their own queries with rambling commentaries. Stop defining the parameters of Your question and instead 'ask' for that perceived by others.

Answer 7

I think older people see youth as immature beause they are jealous Older people are afraid of something they can not recapture - their youth. I can not add much to your duiscussion. I wish you well