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From: tim@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: D & D : 60 Minutes 9/15
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Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 00:25:45 EDT
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You realize, of course, that resistance is futile.  Any pastime or fad that
is popular among the young will automatically be considered evil by many
parents.  Can anyone name just one pastime that has not been blamed for "the
sorry state of today's youth"?  Pop crooners were even blamed in the forties
and fifties, and even such a totally innocent fad as the hula hoop was
considered lascivious.

I don't know why this is; either adults hate seeing young people having fun
because they do it better than the adults can, or any source of fun provides
a convenient scapegoat for the universally perceived rottenness of the
young; but in any case you might as well fight the law of inverse squares as
oppose this.
-=-
Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking
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