re: Adults on skate boards

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Hey! Let's have a society with norms of behavior and rites of passage instead of a chaotic shitshow for man-children! Because NASA didn't play adult kickball on the moon, they played fricking golf!

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When I see older men on skateboards, I assume they haven’t grown up.

That may or may not be fair. But that’s what it suggests.

This is the age of the puer aeternis. Jung’s eternal child.

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Puer aeternus. Latin for “eternal child,” used in mythology to designate a child-god who is forever young; psychologically it refers to an older man whose emotional life has remained at an adolescent level, usually coupled with too great a dependence on the mother.

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This phenomenon is unfortunately common, and has a lot to do with the breakdown in traditional culture.

All of the male rites of passage have been destroyed, in the name of gender equity, for example.

Those were important because they were a mechanical way to separate boy from mother, and launch boys into manhood.