adolescência tardia

October 29, 2006
 
No século XIX, as pessoas da sua idade já eram adultas porque morriam de tuberculose antes de completarem 40 anos. Até o fim da primeira metade do século passado, as pessoas na sua idade também já eram adultas e iam pra guerra e tinham 10 filhos. Nós, com a expectativa de viver 70, 80 anos, vemos nisso um salvo-conduto para continuar adolescentes indefinidamente, aos 26 anos e ainda recebendo mesada dos pais. Mas quem suporta adolescentes? O mundo ficaria melhor se resolvêssemos crescer, é o que diz Michael Bywater, com humour, num trecho de "Big Babies" (no prelo) que o Telegraph publicou:

I imagine myself to be a grown-up, as, presumably, do you. You think that because you negotiated puberty and developed secondary sexual characteristics, and got qualifications and opened a bank account and subjected yourself to the scrutiny of anti-terrorism laws and anti-money-laundering laws and learned to drive and got a job and perhaps a spouse and maybe children, and quite possibly even pay your taxes, you are a grown-up.

Sometimes, things strike you as a bit odd. It strikes you, for example, as out of kilter that between getting off the plane and reaching the outside world at London Heathrow there were, at last count, 93 notices telling you off for things you hadn’t done or which it hadn’t even occurred to you to do.

The plain fact is that you are being treated like a baby. You, I, all of us are on the receiving end of a sustained campaign to infantilise us: our tastes, our responses, our behaviour, our private thoughts, our decisions, our buying habits, our philosophies, our political sensibilities. (continua)

(Via Galera)

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