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Sometimes I wonder if I'm just getting old and no longer get things, or if the world is just getting crazier.
by blarg1 7y ago
Sometimes I wonder if I'm just getting old and no longer get things, or if the world is just getting crazier.
- Luc 7y agoComputer games. Pew pew.
- wil421 7y agoI think what most people find weird about the horse thing is they are kinda jumping around prancing about. If VR really took off and people were doing the movements they do in some video games I wonder if people would have the same reaction. I mean there are video games for kids with horses and other things kids like that arent AAA mainstream games.
- Luc 7y agoGood point. It seems analogous to that rhythmic gymnastics discipline where they do routines with a long ribbon attached to a stick.
- crispyambulance 7y agoIt's OK, not everything has to be compliant with our sensibilities. It's just a thing that people in another culture do with a long history. I'm glad for surprises like this even though I don't quite (or at all) understand them!
- pavlov 7y agoI guess that's how people our age felt about rock'n'roll in 1959... (Approaching forty here.) Too often my knee-jerk reaction to unexpected things is "There's no possible cultural value in this." But it usually pays off to put in a bit of effort to try to understand what the practitioners are getting out of it.
- p1esk 7y agoRock’n’roll was new and cool in 1959.
- pavlov 7y agoExactly. 40-year-old people mostly didn't get new and cool.
- p1esk 7y agoStick horse riding is neither new nor cool in 2019.
- pavlov 7y agoThousands of pre-teens disagree.
- p1esk 7y agoYeah, I'm pretty sure if you do a poll of random 12yo girls those who think it's "cool" will be a rounding error. For the record, I'm all for fun physical activities like this, just don't try to compare it to rock'n'roll.
- pavlov 7y agoI guess I wasn’t communicating all that clearly. What I meant was that middle-aged people tend to misunderstand/underestimate even the huge rising trends like rock’n’roll — so they’re even more likely to make a wrong summary judgment on fringe activities like this.
- dalbasal 7y agoKids have always played wierd make-believe games. Sometimes it starts getting more formalized and attracts slightly older kids. People usually think it's weird, then they get used to it. ...like dungeons and dragons. Skeptical articles lean into the knee-jerk reaction that "something must be broken with society." Ultimately, lots of stuff is wierd if you approach it from a judgemental outsider's perspective. Wtf is golf all about, for example?
- wavefunction 7y agoOr Quidditch leagues.
- Cthulhu_ 7y agoYes, the former; don't worry about it, it's perfectly natural, your parents had that phase, theirs did, etc. Just don't be a dick about it.
- nabla9 7y agoIs it crazier than square dancing? Square dancing, freestyle canoe [2], cosplay, cross-stitch etc. These are all activities that people do for the sake of the activity itself without any extra motivation except maybe to be able to hang around with others. [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofq_nl366VM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofq_nl366VM
- Mediterraneo10 7y agoIn the UK, the local equivalent of square dancing might be morris dancing, and yes, people regularly mock it as a silly pursuit of weird people.
- kwhitefoot 7y agoI think the Morris is generally a slightly more serious affair than square dancing. Also I think most that of those mocking Morris dancing probably do it from a safe distance!
- nabla9 7y ago> silly pursuit of weird people. so it's like bitcoin 'investing' before computers.
- Shivetya 7y agoOur world is getting bigger which means we are exposed to more and more cultures each day. Used to be (states) we had National Geographic magazine for other cultures and that moved onto TV shows. Then the internet came. Now we can find it real time. Imagine it and it may exist, find things you never imagined and they do exist. All comes down to all us being better for it all. Think of how much exposure that all the conflicts bring about as we learn about people we would have only had a by line about. Now we get video of who they are, how they live, what they like to do. Many talk about the good old days, heck we are living them
- falcolas 7y agoOne merely has to look at the Society for Creative Anachronisms (SCA, 1966) to realize that adults playing dress up and having competitions has been a part of our collective culture for decades (if not longer).
- wccrawford 7y agoI had trouble with it at first, too. At first, I even had trouble with the act alone, but I do remember doing silly things as a kid because they were fun, so that's understandable, even if they look silly doing it. I certainly looked silly a lot as a kid. Then, my issue was that there are apparently whole competitions as if this were a real sport. But then I realized that there's no reason it can't be. We have all kinds of sports that require things that ultimately look like dancing... And that's basically what this is, in the end. Dancing with certain other rules. I also stopped and considered it compared to LARPing. I mean, they're play-acting a scenario and using actual physical skills and routines. It's actually probably a lot more educational than a lot of things they could be playing instead. But in the end, I'm getting old and new things are making me feel uneasy increasingly more often.
- rbreve 7y agoThis is not as crazy as child beauty pageant competitions or plastic cup stacking competitions