I do not have any kids. I like other people's kids, but I never really seemed to want any of my own thus far. A lot of my friends have kids now. The other day, a bunch of us went to Germanfest in Muenster, Texas. We spent a bulk of the time sitting in front of a jungle gym type apparatus. There was other stuff to do, but it was more of just a social gathering to hang out more than anything.

As I sat there and the kids played, I watched a lot of parents deal with their children and it made me realize that a lot of people are really fucking stupid, and are horrible parents. The jungle gym featured a nifty slide with a hump in the middle for added enjoyment Some of these parents would take their child, and manually lift them up to the top of the slide, while the other parent would be waiting crouched at the bottom of the slide to catch them. After each trip down the fun chute, the parent at the bottom would scoop up the child and cheer for joy. I assume because their stupid fucking kid had fallen prey to gravity, rather than magically floating away somehow. So then the other parent would take the child and place them once again at the top of the slide. This fucking kid did not have to do shit the whole time. I should mention, by the way, that this child was plenty old enough to climb the ladder on their own. What in God's green hell are you teaching your child by doing this? To be a pussy? That everything will just be taken care of for them if they just sit there? This is a mother fucking shame. These morons should be jailed or institutionalized.

And it wasn't just one set of parents, I saw plenty acting just like this. I'd hate to go on a diatribe of how "when I was young" this or that was different, but give me a break. Give me the good old days, where you parents taught you valuable life lessons by letting your explore and figure things out on your own. People used to teach their children not to touch hot things by letting them touch it once, burn themselves, and then that's that. I suppose these days that would be considered some sort of child abuse, instead of a learning experience. I learned to swim because my dad took me to the lake and threw me off the pier. I guess that sounds funny laying it like that, but that is essentially what happened. I was not afraid, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and begged him to toss me into the water again and again. If someone were to see a parent do that now, I can assure you, they would be in jail by the end of the day.

I suppose that ultimately it is impossible to say that the kids I saw being 'nerfed' like that will turn out to be complete assholes, but I think its a relatively safe bet. I would also wonder what happened to these people in their childhoods to make them think that what they were doing is the right thing to do. I cannot comprehend not being able to take a look down the road and see why it might make their child spoiled. It would be incredibly amazing to follow a set of parents with a camera for 18 years, and track their parenting methodology documentary style.

I do spend quite a bit of time analyzing the world these days. I don't like the direction it has been going for a while now. I think the seeds have been planted, and things are in motion to eventually cause the downfall and eventual extinction of the human race. It will take a while, but it seems evident that it is well underway. People seem to get smarter, and less smart at the same time (not the same people). It seems that a portion of the population gets smarter as time goes by, while the other portion gets "more stupider". The problem is that the dumb population is overtaking the smart population, with no end in sight.

Fuck it, the world is going to explode.