If you’re not trolling - what a bizarre thing to tell a child. If children can’t be children, then who can??

I don’t disagree with you. But ultimately it’s our (we, the people) responsibility.

Oh you were being serious.

Nobody but The People

So it did help you get up then?

So much has manifested in the ripple effects from the pursuit of great things.

Zelenskyy acting more like the character expected of an American president than the one who got elected to be America’s President.

I tell younglings this fact all the time

“They know every smartphone”

Love to spark a Dragonheart watch! :D

Me too! “Rocky loves… Emily… Rocky loves! Emily!”

Dragonheart (1996)

Godzilla (1998)

Aeon Flux (2005)

Next (2007) - thought it was funny

3 Ninjas (1992) - classic

Yes, the US is a mirage of a first-world country.

John said “reading performatively” - so, unless you’re doing that…

the latter of which many look up to

When I read your whole comment, I feel like you’re ascribing the blame in the wrong place. It’s the “many” who choose to look up to these people, using their standards in place of their own, that I would say is the real issue here. Leo doing this does not normalize dating women for looks for me. Neither does Pharrell Williams buying a cybertruck and riding around in it influence or normalize cybertrucks for me. If people want things based on superficial reasons, they’ll learn that it’s only superficial and doesn’t have substance.

This is a key difference.

But that’s not weird at all!

I personally crave Soylent Green.

Really depends on where you are in the USA. I feel like suburban people tend to be weirded out by things like that.