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Immaturity Level Rising in Adults
Ant writes to tell us that a Discovery News article is exploring the old adage, "like a kid at heart", which may be closer to the truth than we would like to admit. New research is showing that grown-ups are more immature than ever. From the article: "Specifically, it seems a growing number of people are retaining the behaviors and attitudes associated with youth. As a consequence, many older people simply never achieve mental adulthood, according to a leading expert on evolutionary psychiatry."
Judging by the way American Electorate makes its decisions, I concur with the OP that the adults are getting dumber and electing duby... sorry dumb people.
-Palal
Grow the fuck up.
"Immaturity is another way. You could call it hiding from the world, or laziness, but it is another valid way."
Funny, very funny. Only an immature would think immaturity is valid.
"They take nothing from me. They don't. "
Except, of course, the ability to enjoy a movie without inane comments or phone interruptions, being able to drive along without worrying about the immature jackass who can't control his temper or keep his friggin' cell-phone off his ear, or any of a vast number of things that someone with no self-control (maturity) prevents. "People with your attitude are spoiling their dream, not helping their future."
Uh, perhaps you didn't read the post. Immatures don't really think about the future, so they don't have one.
At least you've retained your inability to spell.
There is a reason why that story is a sad tale instead of a joyous return to a blissful state of ignorance.
Because that's how the author wrote the story to be, that's why. Try not to read too much meaning into works of fiction.