Infantilized Society

When I saw the video that Emily Hartern posted in the blog (Tuesday 10^th March 2009, link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sb6RmRMbBY)

and even if the speech was written by an adult, a lot of what that girl was saying to a whole UN audience was what I felt when I was that age. Talking about the earth she says to them: If you can’t fix it, so stop breaking it. It sounded strange, a kid telling older people what to do with anger. We should definitely give the word to people that never have the chance to talk. Maybe for some reason they have been silenced. A friend of mine went traveling to the Amazons, I am not going to go into details, but he said he cried when going further and further just finding deforestation, forest depleted, invaded by machines, everywhere. Another friend told me the same, she found her way into a closed community separated by a stream. She liked it there, the locals received her and taught her about the place, she did not see ‘westerners’ for about six months until her father got worried and went to find her. It was a little community, I believe no more than 100 people she said, trying to keep the same traditions they had from before the colonization period. She said that they believe that western culture is an infantilized culture, that we live for our childish desires without respect of the environment.

Then coming back to Emily Hartern’s posted video, I see that maybe this community in the Amazons is right about our way of living, and that kids have to become adults because adults are ‘playing’ like children.