re: #601 WindUpBird

Oh, in the romans and fighter jets, I think what you’re overlooking is a lot of kids assume technology has been around forever— when they don’t think it was all invented yesterday. History of technology has to actually get caught. So that’s the spirit I interpreted it in.

Maybe I’m a bit sensitive about this issue and how it ties into my experiences.

I think so too. I think it speaks to the cultural stuff I was talking about; I also think a huge part of the problem is our general societal attitude towards teenagers, how we treat them as potential rapist-murderer-sociopath-punk-useless-fuckers, while demanding they be celibate-generous-honest-obedient-angels.