Erstellt am: 10. 3. 2015 - 13:39 Uhr
Today's Webtip: Weird World
One of the greatest things about getting older is watching your long-term understanding of The Way The World Is get shattered.
My ideas of things like age appropriate behavior and what constitutes adult culture as opposed to youth culture were largely formed by those of my parents. Small town baby-boomers who were on the losing side of the great sixties culture war.
That means that despite having loudly proclaimed that I would be punk for life, there are little corners of my brain that still act shocked when I realize that growing up no longer means listening to Lawrence Welk and reading the Readers Digest.
I still get freaked out every time it occurs to me that many of the rock stars at major festivals could actually be great-grandparents by now.
So this morning I was just a bit shocked to realise I had followed a headline promising a discussion about the philosophy of Calvin and Hobbes and ended up at the Wall Street Journal. Because in my old world, the WSJ was only read by cigar smoking banksters in pin striped suits. Not the type I imagined to by fans of Calvin. Well, Calvin Coolidge perhaps.
It's not the greatest article out there, and it's a bit light on the philosophy, but it has a huge collection of comments by people getting nostalgic about Bill Watterson's creation. So it has that going for it...