Excessive attention on safety/ettiquette(rant)

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....I just see some kids today, and most of them are going to suck when they grow up. There are too many rules...playtime is too structured.The whole concept of a "play-date" is so much b.s...since when are parents expected to provide imagination for kids, we have this whole "healthy start", "cultivate their minds before five" jive....the children of tommorow are going to be brainless little automatons...all their playtime is arranged...either that or they sit on their little arses in front of a t.v or computer...parents used to tell their kids to get some fresh air, and kick them out of the house for the day...now they're afraid their going to get molested or abducted.

....I'd say with a straight face that it's better that a few children face tragic consequences, than have a whole generation of kids facing the manifestations of their boring,dilluted, contrived, and regulated childhood as adults. Conflict, catastrophe are all a part of life, but we seem to want to shield people from it.

....and to ramble on, the local editorials in my city are full of this BS insistence on safety.

-When someday falls off an LRT-platform-it's the city that should have put guard rails on it, not just some moron who jumped in the way of a passing train

-a smoking ban that doesn't even exempt a shisha bar.(why the hell else would you go to a shisha bar?)

other gripes:

-the boring playground equipment, compared to the stuff I remember when I was a kid
-the very existence of "hate crimes", is it more noble to kill someone for their money-regardless of skin colour?(it's pretty much just legislating thought, everyone has the right to hate who they want, only the action should have any relevance)
-$150 fine for urinating in my city, pretty much a direct attack on the homeless population

...everything in the western world is so heavily regulated and sanitized...if it progresses this way for the next 50 years, I'll probably committ suicide.(no word of a lie.).

...essentially:

1) You should be able to put what ever you want into your own body, have the sovereign right over your own body.(ex. Legalize prostitution,drugs,etc.)

2)You should be able to say and publish whatever you want...period.

3)People should stop being protected from their own stupidity.

4)freedom of movement...the pigs in this city think it's alright to arrest the homeless for loitering(on public property!! !)...and enforce ridiculous ettiquette laws.(they don't have the right to the full human experience because they don't own property)

.....anyway this is a bit convuluted...but it's just causing me anxiety...so I needed to vent.Societies becoming more boring by the minute.

I'll second that!

I hate all these rules and regulations, I also really hate censorship. I'm sick of being restricted, limited and even punished because of the acts of others.
Reminds me of high school when certain teachers would keep an entire class behind for an extra 15 minutes just because two or three were talking. Then they expected us to follow their rules and treat them with respect and I always did (I regret doing so, but breaking rules tends to draw attention to yourself and I can't stand attention). I never got anything out of following the rules and co-operating with the system, not a damn thing. Zero recognition, (not that I like that anyway, but that's not the point, being NT they tend to assume you do) zero reward and I don't believe that I was taught a single useful thing.

Fast forward a couple of years and you see in the news that some schools are now so ridiculous as to prevent children from playing tag at break times, I mean, what the hell? 90% of those who have the power to make rules don't seem to have a clue about anything. These kids are going to grow up with no minds of their own. Yet more drones.

In fact, I often feel like a drone myself, utterly reprehensible.

Something else I've never understood, is the common opinion that it is right to protect a child's innocence, which basically amounts to making sure that they are ignorant of many parts of life just so adults can feel superior, dehumanize them and feel ok about controlling them like puppets for their own satisfaction. Well, that's how I felt as a child anyway, sub-human.

I also hated it when I was told to grow up in the past, because I haven't changed one iota between now and then. I was grown up, far more than they realised. Always think they know best.

Ok, I'm getting a bit off topic here. I'll shut up now. But yeah, the world is slowly trying to turn us all into a bunch of sissies.

....50 years ago there were probably harsher rules for acting out of line.What gets me is the nanny mentality that exists now. It would probably be better if parents were more disciplinarian...that way kids can form some kind of identity....the problem is that parents are trying to smother their kids, trying to shape their mind and their attitudes...not letting them do things for themselves. I think it's better to have an a***hole parent who at least gives the kid some breathing room.

....there is a structure, and a subtext to everything. Throwing your baby in the air is a "trust consolidation exercise". Everything seems to be an expression of "post-something-angst".What's fun for kids is decided by adults....all that's left for kids to do is to compare s**t that they own.

......I got a theory, gradually as all the possibilities for fun and excitement are dwindled away, there's a product to compensate for the loss. We're more likely to accumulate useless crap if we aren't active.(kids can't fight with each other so they fight with pog-sadly from my generation)."play dates" means going to the other kids house to watch t.v. where there bombarded with ads. Toys are intended to properly stimulate a kids "imagination", rather than letting them play unsupervised.

..It sounds paranoid, but I think if everythings structured, there's always a product that you need to buy, or a service that you need to pay for. It's marx's "commodity fetishism". Capitalism knows know boundaries, and orientating children from birth will ensure they become souless,submissive,materialist grownups.

...and back to rules, if a kid breaks the rules now, they aren't coerced physically, but mentally.

Totally agree, nothing to add

Unfortunately, I can only agree with everything that has been said

What really does my head in, is has everything ended up this way due to a logical progression, or has it been planned long in advance?

Or is that my paranoia coming out again?