Comment by kenjackson
2 days ago
I think this article was way overdone, based on what I see with my teenage kids. They don't go to any "parties", but during the summer they are at the beach around 4x per week with bonfires at night. Almost 1/3 of their class (at a somewhat small school) is there.
And with Snapchat they know where everyone is. It's typical on a Friday school night they are scanning their map to see, "this group is at the mall. this group is at the football. this group went to her house." And then pick where to go.
Honestly, the current method of social gathering seems so much better than what I did in the 80s.
Aaaahhh... You have "beach" ... with the "bonfires" option pack ... This is very nice urban furniture.
Here we have "streets" and , occasionally, "public parks".
Forget the "bonfires" option.
> Forget the "bonfires" option.
This right here is emblematic of the change in culture. When Gen X were young you weren't allowed to have bonfires (in most public places) either, but that never stopped anyone. Nowadays the kids are too afraid to do anything.
How much of that is because of the difference in how severely the legal/policing systems punish this kind of harmless activity now vs back then?
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Or maybe they are less of assholes in that regard. It is actually ok to not start fires where you should not.
And starting them does not make one courageous, just jerks.
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Its definitely more efficient than riding on your bike or later a car, hoping someone was home