Originally posted by NaClH2O Gooshin, why do you think that only "more mature" people can have weird ideas regarding artistic endeavor?
I would have asked "What, is he some sort of young kid or something?"
NaCl(the more experienced set don't have a lock on weird ideas)H2O
growing up i did not have many friends who were peers, always older. Even when i got into University because i was taking night classes my fellow students were 10-15 years older than me, with families and kids.
various projects have also put me in contact with older individuals, individuals that have seen much less of the world than me even though they are twice or thrice my age.
my overall conclusion based purely from my own life experience (and a know-it-all grandfather), is that old people dont like change, less educated people dont like change, people that grind away at their life dont like change. They fear change more than they fear death, because to them it might as well be the same thing.
these people grow up on RULES and these rules are burned forever into their blood and genes, their speech, their thought process solidfies around these ideas.
eventually this fear of change morphs something into even more sinister, a genuine inability to think outside the box.
if a person could think outside the box, the original argument would have never taken place.
having said that i will not defend my current generation, we have as many screwed up idiots as any other generation, the only difference is that through use of proper lexicon and structuring your argument in an interesting way (assuming you have validity), todays youth will be more than happy to follow along with your point of view.
logic and argumentative structure, no matter how refined, is completely lost on old people however, they refuse to process the words that you are telling them, in the end all you get is frustration.