This is an embittered man who laments the simple life of his memories, and rejects the simple life of today's children's memories.Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
At least he's got a pleasant sense of humor to cover up his obvious (and trite) disdain for the world he finds himself in.
His bit about bluejeans is a fine microcosm of his greater point. Even when he got the best fitting pair of jeans in his life, he was sad because they were different from his old jeans. He blames the sadness on the jeans - or rather the process by which he acquired what he wanted. All of this is because the companies who make jeans listened to the feedback of their customers and tried to make less uncomfortable jeans.
His message lacks recommendations for people to live in this morass he purports we find ourselves.
That hollow metaphor with the fish bowl at the end doesn't actually say or mean anything and is full of "do this, but not too much" w/o identifying any sense of what he means by "this" or "too much."
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My thesis:
Some form of this guy has been around for at least 150,000 years in every culture of humans that ever existed.
His message:
"When I was young I had to try really hard to make sense of the world and to find a place and role that I could fill. Having done so, I relaxed my effort to make sense of the world, accepting my place in it. Then the god-damned world kept changing and now what I thought was my place is not what it was, and I'm uncomfortable."
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