People were deliberately stunted by both their parents and marketing. In the late 80s and early 90s, they started really fucking aggressively pushing that fucking like, “Tell your parents ‘Buy me Bonestorm or go to hell,'” that classic Simpsons bit we all know and love, and that created this fucking generation. And it’s not just marketing, it’s also, you know, the school system and, you know, people, fucking, telling their children they could be president before they knew the fucking alphabet in kindergarten, and it does create a sense of entitlement. I think that does create a lot of problems with cultural narcissism across the board….You created an inverse system where the best time in someone’s life is between the ages of five and fifteen….Honestly, [the idea of getting off work to play video games and eat Hot Pockets] feels like being plugged into a fucking dialysis machine and laying down on a fucking deathbed. All that regressive shit gives me, like, sincerely, a fucking weird nausea. Like, I can’t even, I have trouble watching old Simpsons episodes. We had one night where…we were watching season 5 or whatever, and I’m laughing at the jokes, but it’s almost like, triggering in the sense that it’s like, you know, life goes on, you can’t keep clinging to these things that were around 20 years ago. You need to find some way to make this moment in my life substantial or mean something, and outside of doing a shit ton of drugs, I really don’t know how to do it.
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