{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Sent my mom a copy of Philip Wylie\u2019s 1943 anti-momism Generation of Vipers for Mother\u2019s Day\n As part of my campaign since 1989...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/173816958908/", "html": "

thehats:

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berlynn-wohl:

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kontextmaschine:

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Sent my mom a copy of Philip Wylie\u2019s 1943 anti-momism Generation of Vipers for Mother\u2019s Day

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As part of my campaign since 1989 age 6 to not so much punish her for, but kind of punish her for and moreover save her from yuppie helicopter parenting, after we passed the correct \u201870s golden spot of leaving your kids to latchkey raise themselves and find their correct fate while you had a meaningful life of affairs and addictions and hobbies to yourself

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Oh man, it just occurred to me: that\u2019s why recent media about a group of kids having a Perilous Adventure\u2122 (Stranger Things, Super 8) are still taking place in the 70\u2032s or 80\u2032s. It\u2019s not believable anymore that 11-year-olds would be left unsupervised long enough to, say, find pirate treasure in Astoria, or develop a meaningful relationship with an alien.

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Have you been to Astoria? It\u2019s never been believable that anyone could find pirate treasure there.

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I have been to Astoria; it\u2019s a rare harbor along a craggy coast with rough tides and shifting sandbars known for easily shipwrecking captains without local knowledge, a place that used to be ungoverned frontier relatively recently; that\u2019s exactly where you\u2019d expect pirate treasure

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