Capture Young Minds

Why older people want to capture the minds of the young.

Older people want to capture the minds of the young for a variety of reasons some of which seem to violate a smooth transition of power. To capture the mind of a young person is insure the continuation of ideas and meanings that drive the hunter. The best of them realize that it is not about themselves but that it about the idea that has an effect in the world and are driven by the desire to see that idea continue. The young then, by their very malleable meaning making structures, become targets for the subversive old people with agendas. Now that was a lot of loaded language!

We often have kids because we want them to have better ideas and meaning about the world than we had when we grew up. But industry has kids because of the agendas that focus more on what to wear over why are you wearing it. Instead of viewing youth as time where there is a need for intense training coupled with freeing exploration, we view it as a time of prime consumership since they have nothing better to do.

I know I have some clarifying to do with these thoughts, but the notion of capturing the young seems so powerful to me that I can’t just let it go. Giving people what they want is a form of bondage, especially when the giver knows what they want is not good for them and does not use the giving to bring them up.