Good Ole Days Obituary

Obituary of the Good Ole Days Imagine a little league baseball coach- a middle-aged man with graying hair and the faint odor of barbecue sauce lingering on his cargo shorts. He towers over his team of scrappy second graders and looks down with disapproval. Instead of encouraging the children to play to their strengths and enjoy the game, he tirelessly ridicules the young players for having more advanced bats and gloves than he did. Back in his day, he had to make do with a wooden bat and a worn-out glove passed down from his older brother. Knowing that the team in front of him will never experience the rugged game that he once knew, he storms away, leaving the young boys to fend for themselves. In a similarly ridiculous fashion, the older …show more content…
Unfortunately, many people will see this comic and chuckle at its “true and relatable” humor. What this does, however, is perpetuate a culture in which innovation is seen as corruption, and amusement is found through desperately clinging to old ways. This perspective embodies the fallacy that countless adults have fallen victim to- that as they struggle more and more with each new technological advancement, for some reason it works the other way around as well. Granted, children and teenagers today have to option to rely much more heavily on these resources in a way that their parents and grandparents did not, but this the pattern that’s been observed since the beginning recorded history. With each new invention comes an era of revolutionary applications. How foolish it would have been of colonial Americans to rag on the beneficiaries of the printing press because “back in their day” they had to write everything by hand. Innovation should be celebrated, especially when it betters the lives of anyone it reaches. Some adults will choose to engage in lighthearted humor as a way to cope with their increasing feelings of irrelevance. However, it is unacceptable that the culture being formed by the upcoming generation is being belittled by people who are dumbfounded by the concept of a …show more content…
At first, it’s easy to find amusement in these kinds of jokes, shaking one’s head at the exposure of today’s youth and their poor ability to interact with each other without the use of technology. These statements instill a feeling of guilt, insinuating that the millennial generation should be woken up from their backlit stupor and return to the “golden age” of American society. Even though it seems appealing to engage with the pastoral images of baseball in the yard and dead poet societies, the truth is no time period was ever that scenic in its totality. Instead, people must acknowledge the strengths and uniqueness of this generation. It is impossible to move forward if everyone lives in constant nostalgia for a hagiographic idea of the