I thought there would be some twist to this article but no it was really just as mean and pretentious as it sounds
Oh my god who fucking wrote this
Everyone I know treasures what they drew as children once they’re all grown up and is glad if their family hung onto it
The final lines just viscerally disgust me here:
“
There’s a point, perhaps around the age of 7, when memory takes over and
a self-history starts, where children themselves decide what’s
important to them and what isn’t. Of course, you shouldn’t throw
something away that your kids say they want to keep. But absent that
urge, and particularly in the early years before it develops, most
children’s art exists to be destroyed.
“
For one thing, who the F U C K thinks children only becomes conscious of themselves and forming solid memories after seven years old?! Shouldn’t you be able to remember at least ages 3-5 like you can any other period in your life??
Second, the things created before that period are still probably the most important and amazing of all. Those are the relics of what your brain was like when it was brand new. I can’t think of many things more special to a human life than the window that offers.
Eventually, if you’ve looked at it often enough, the art becomes pitiful, emptied of meaning. It remains, at best, a sign that the child has moved on to another equally ephemeral moment of her life, already coloring on something else.
So basically, your kids won’t remain little forever, therefore their art is a temporary thing, and temporary things have no value. Good to know, you goddamn robot powered by human tears.
You convince yourself there’s some future where your child will want to return to that moment of pride and love through the act of witnessing the thing she made so long ago.
Don’t fall for it. You’re only trying to make yourself feel better.
They seem to be trying to convince themselves that children below seven don’t have thoughts or feelings, which is very worrying.
Seriously, this reads like the mommy blogger a few years back whose monomaniacal focus on “decluttering” her children’s toys were so clearly the result of undealt-with issues. How fucking sad is this:
Real art gives you tools for reflection. But there wasn’t anything left of myself to reckon with in my old art, because the papers I had cast marker or crayon upon at age 5 had never really contained that kind of artistry or inspiration.
“Remember Tiffany, if every paper you draw on isn’t a masterpiece, into the trash it goes.”
I never felt as fucking free as when I was doing art as a small child, as confident, as creative. For someone to think of their own childhood art like this makes me legitimately sad, and indicates the kind of values instilled in them from an early age. Just because it wasn’t a heavily symbolic masterpiece didn’t meant it had no goddamn value, jesus christ.
I saw this article and the other day and thank you for putting into words all my icky feelings about it. it just felt wrong. and now I know why. if anyone needs a bunch of “who hurt you” memes sent to them…its the author of that article.
some people should really have to take a psych eval before they’re allowed to publish articles. If you score high as a narc or a -path, you don’t get to publish anything.
You say “or” when clearly the author was a narcissist AND a psychopath
I pity the future generations that have to deal with gen z ghosts that yell “yeet” everytime they move everything around the house to creep the owner out
Oscar Isaac reads Richard Feynman letter to his wife, Arline. (Letters Live)
Transcript
October 17, 1946
D’Arline,
I adore you, sweetheart.
I know how much you like to hear that—but I don’t only write it because you like it—I write it because it makes me warm all over inside to write it to you.
It is such a terribly long time since I last wrote to you—almost two years but I know you’ll excuse me because you understand how I am, stubborn and realistic; and I thought there was no sense to writing.
But now I know my darling wife that it is right to do what I have delayed in doing, and that I have done so much in the past. I want to tell you I love you. I want to love you. I always will love you.
I find it hard to understand in my mind what it means to love you after you are dead—but I still want to comfort and take care of you—and I want you to love me and care for me. I want to have problems to discuss with you—I want to do little projects with you. I never thought until just now that we can do that. What should we do. We started to learn to make clothes together—or learn Chinese—or getting a movie projector. Can’t I do something now? No. I am alone without you and you were the “idea-woman” and general instigator of all our wild adventures.
When you were sick you worried because you could not give me something that you wanted to and thought I needed. You needn’t have worried. Just as I told you then there was no real need because I loved you in so many ways so much. And now it is clearly even more true—you can give me nothing now yet I love you so that you stand in my way of loving anyone else—but I want you to stand there. You, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive.
I know you will assure me that I am foolish and that you want me to have full happiness and don’t want to be in my way. I’ll bet you are surprised that I don’t even have a girlfriend (except you, sweetheart) after two years. But you can’t help it, darling, nor can I—I don’t understand it, for I have met many girls and very nice ones and I don’t want to remain alone—but in two or three meetings they all seem ashes. You only are left to me. You are real.
My darling wife, I do adore you.
I love my wife. My wife is dead.
Rich.
PS Please excuse my not mailing this—but I don’t know your new address.
This ain’t a quote but the Captain Marvel trailer dropped and I finally watched it and I am so fucking HYPED to see her and Thor whoop Thanos’s grape flavored ass.
‘Grape flavoured ass’…that’s just hilarious for some reason.
this pic from my biology textbook is way funnier than it needs to be
I hate being a bio major bc I know exactly what this stupid picture is referring to
do tell
there are these things called survivorship curves and there are three types Type I (shown in red) Type II (blue) and Type III (green) They’re created by looking at birth and death rates of a given species and the curve shows at what point in time an organism of a specific species will die. For example, humans have a fairly low infant mortality and if you make it to around age 16 you’ll probably survive until you’re around 75 unless there’s an accident or you have some undetected disease that would cause you to die early. Type III are plants, fish, and other marine animals that have a very low chance of survival at birth but if they make it past infancy they will likely live to their life expectancy. Type II are birds, small lizards and mammals and they really just die randomly.
Is this what you guys think it means when GMO comes up in conversation?
Do you know what else is a GMO?
Dogs. Literally ALL dogs have had their genetics modified to make them more docile, loyal, trusting, energetic, obedient ect.
Ears of corn used to be the size of your thumb. Through selective ‘breeding’ we chose the strains of corn that were the biggest, fastest growing, most resilient ect. Ect.
THAT is a GMO. I don’t know where the idea that genetic modification meant they’re injecting your food stuffs with chemicals to change its DNA. That’s not how it works.
However, they ARE spraying your veggies with pesticides and that is something you should be worried about.
Companies like Monsanto are evil. But not because they are breeding crops to feed more people. But because they’re monopolizing the farming market, sueing farmers who share a geographic area and have some of the same strains of crops in their fields because of unavoidable cross pollination and lying about their business practices.
This is Normal Borlaug. In 1942 he received his Ph. D in plant pathology and genetics. In Mexico, he developed semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease resistant varieties of wheat. A genetically modified food. He introduced these to Mexico, Pakistan and India, resulting in double the wheat yields in a 5 year span. In 1970, Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for saving one billion lives from starvation, and contributing to world peace through increasing the world food supply.
Genetically modified food is great.
This, a thousand fucking times this. Privilege is spouting and spreading pseudo-science bullshit you saw on your Facebook feed or on Twitter because unlike people in drought and famine prone areas of the world, you have the option to do just that. Those other parts of the world that don’t have the benefit of a food surplus and can’t pick and choose what they eat depend on GMOs to not die of starvation or watch their children waste away.
I despise Monsanto as much as the next person and if they ever go out of business, I’ll be the first to dance a jig, but condemning GMOs just because one megacorp is a pile of shitbags is beyond idiotic. If scientists can create new strains of seeds that can withstand disease, pests, all while yielding more foodstuff, then we should be throwing our support behind them.
Also, “They are feeding us chemicals!” is a fundamentally ridiculous statement.
Why?
As a chemist, I’m gonna let you in on a little secret:
Everything is chemicals.
GMO scaremongering is second only to vaccine scaremongering
I always laugh when people say “there are chemicals in my food!” because buddy…. you are chemicals. People are literally made of organic compounds, which are… chemical compounds with carbon in ‘em. YOU ARE THE CHEMICALS
Chemicals in my me?
Everything is chemicals
I blew my mother’s mind with this once. She’s a chemtrail, total tin-hatter, and couldn’t believe that I eat Miracle Whip, because “it’s nothing but chemicals.”
So I got on my phone and started reading off a scary list. It had lots of words followed by “acid”, and a bunch of stuff I had to read very slowly to be able to pronounce.
It was an apple. I was reading the chemical composition of an apple, and it goddamn nearly gave her a heart attack from panic.
please educate yourself or perish thank
Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food
Not enough people know about Norman Borlaug. He is quite possibly one of the most significant figures of the modern age. Remember that white idiots who think that the earth was made for them this way that say GMOs are dangerous. Much like with stem cells, we can’t let fear mongering shut down one of the most powerful weapons of peace.
Is this what you guys think it means when GMO comes up in conversation?
Do you know what else is a GMO?
Dogs. Literally ALL dogs have had their genetics modified to make them more docile, loyal, trusting, energetic, obedient ect.
Ears of corn used to be the size of your thumb. Through selective ‘breeding’ we chose the strains of corn that were the biggest, fastest growing, most resilient ect. Ect.
THAT is a GMO. I don’t know where the idea that genetic modification meant they’re injecting your food stuffs with chemicals to change its DNA. That’s not how it works.
However, they ARE spraying your veggies with pesticides and that is something you should be worried about.
Companies like Monsanto are evil. But not because they are breeding crops to feed more people. But because they’re monopolizing the farming market, sueing farmers who share a geographic area and have some of the same strains of crops in their fields because of unavoidable cross pollination and lying about their business practices.
This is Normal Borlaug. In 1942 he received his Ph. D in plant pathology and genetics. In Mexico, he developed semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease resistant varieties of wheat. A genetically modified food. He introduced these to Mexico, Pakistan and India, resulting in double the wheat yields in a 5 year span. In 1970, Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for saving one billion lives from starvation, and contributing to world peace through increasing the world food supply.
Genetically modified food is great.
This, a thousand fucking times this. Privilege is spouting and spreading pseudo-science bullshit you saw on your Facebook feed or on Twitter because unlike people in drought and famine prone areas of the world, you have the option to do just that. Those other parts of the world that don’t have the benefit of a food surplus and can’t pick and choose what they eat depend on GMOs to not die of starvation or watch their children waste away.
I despise Monsanto as much as the next person and if they ever go out of business, I’ll be the first to dance a jig, but condemning GMOs just because one megacorp is a pile of shitbags is beyond idiotic. If scientists can create new strains of seeds that can withstand disease, pests, all while yielding more foodstuff, then we should be throwing our support behind them.
Also, “They are feeding us chemicals!” is a fundamentally ridiculous statement.
Why?
As a chemist, I’m gonna let you in on a little secret:
Everything is chemicals.
GMO scaremongering is second only to vaccine scaremongering
I always laugh when people say “there are chemicals in my food!” because buddy…. you are chemicals. People are literally made of organic compounds, which are… chemical compounds with carbon in ‘em. YOU ARE THE CHEMICALS
Chemicals in my me?
Everything is chemicals
I blew my mother’s mind with this once. She’s a chemtrail, total tin-hatter, and couldn’t believe that I eat Miracle Whip, because “it’s nothing but chemicals.”
So I got on my phone and started reading off a scary list. It had lots of words followed by “acid”, and a bunch of stuff I had to read very slowly to be able to pronounce.
It was an apple. I was reading the chemical composition of an apple, and it goddamn nearly gave her a heart attack from panic.
please educate yourself or perish thank
Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food
Not enough people know about Norman Borlaug. He is quite possibly one of the most significant figures of the modern age. Remember that white idiots who think that the earth was made for them this way that say GMOs are dangerous. Much like with stem cells, we can’t let fear mongering shut down one of the most powerful weapons of peace.
Anxiety-prone-human 