RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Anime rots your brain?

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

My apologies, I mistranslated it.

"But after all, this imbecility of body is more frequently occasioned by the
irregularities of youth, than by the natural and unavoidable consequences of
long life." (translation from http://www.4literature.net/)


> I couldn't find the Pliny quote, but here's a little Cicero:
> "Quin etiam aetas illa multo pluris quam nostra casus mortis 
> habet; facilius
> in morbos incidunt adulescentes, gravius aegrotant, tristius 
> curantur."
> 
> I just did the search in Latin (yes, Google seems to support that just
> fine), and came up with this.  As best I can tell, it basically says
> 'Endlessly, our youth more easily become ill with an 
> worsening deadly evil'.
> Seems Cicero was a bit more blunt about the problem than we 
> are now ;-)
> 
> PS: More accurate translations are welcome, I'm going off 
> what I remember
> from high school.
> 
> 
> (quote from "Cato Maior de Senectute Liber", Marcus Tullius Cicero)
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ross, Matt [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 2:39 PM
> > To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> > Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Anime rots your brain?
> > 
> > 
> > Ah, sorry, I know too many parents who actually believe 
> > wholeheartedly that
> > what you suggested was factual.
> > 
> > The one thing I've noticed about children and their parents, 
> > the children
> > always grow up and say the same thing their parents did.  Its 
> > documented at
> > least as far back as the Roman Republic.  Parents always say, 
> > at least one
> > time in their life, "this younger generation has gone all to 
> > hell".  I've
> > actually read a document by the historian Pliny the Younger, 
> > which said that
> > in Latin.  I'll try to find out the title again, I read it in 
> > my junior year
> > of high school, so you can guess its been a while.
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Steve Cooper [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 2:27 PM
> > > To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> > > Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Anime rots your brain?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I was trying to stay on the humorous side of this, just saw 
> > > the old Bill
> > > Cosby show again this past weekend and fell out of the chair 
> > > laughing. So my
> > > 2 cents worth was supposed to bring a grin, because I sure 
> > > got a chuckle.
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> > > [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Ross, Matt
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 2:15 PM
> > > To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> > > Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Anime rots your brain?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I guarantee you, when Bill Cosby was a kid, he responded "I 
> > > don't know" to
> > > any question he was asked.  Child psychologists suggest that 
> > > the questions
> > > we ask are too broad for someone at the child's level to 
> > > process into an
> > > answer they think will satisfy the adult.  For example, "what 
> > > did you learn
> > > at school today?" - there is no right answer to that. 
> > > "nothin' mom" upsets
> > > the parent, who assumes their child's answer can be taken at 
> > > face value, and
> > > no child can analyze his thought processes well enough to 
> > > determine what
> > > thoughts the teacher planted in his brain on a given day.  Do 
> > > you remember
> > > what date you learned the difference between a square and 
> a circle?
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Steve Cooper [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 1:58 PM
> > > > To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> > > > Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Anime rots your brain?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > No, I go for the Bill Cosby version; it has turned the child
> > > > brain dead and
> > > > all they can respond is "I don't know' to any question that
> > > > is asked of
> > > > them.
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> > > > [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]On Behalf Of 
> Ross, Matt
> > > > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 1:51 PM
> > > > To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> > > > Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Anime rots your brain?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The "rots your brain" phrase gets tagged onto anything the
> > > > parents don't
> > > > understand.  The difference between what we watched as
> > > > children and pokemon,
> > > > digimon, etc, is merchandising success.  Sesame Street made
> > > > millions off us
> > > > when we were kids, while Pokemon makes billions off our kids.
> > > >  Other than
> > > > that, any difference in quality, messages, etc. that you
> > > > notice is merely
> > > > the result of the paradigm shift called "growing up".  Sesame
> > > > Street and
> > > > Pokemon for example, both teach simple morals (don't lie, be
> > > > nice to people,
> > > > etc.), both teach simple science and math (impure water conducts
> > > > electricity, four worms plus 3 worms equals 7 worms, etc.),
> > > > and both have
> > > > cute, fuzzy characters to relay this information.
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Steve Cooper [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 1:40 PM
> > > > > To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> > > > > Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Anime rots your brain?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On the issue of Pokeman, I would take a chance at saying it
> > > > > has rotted my
> > > > > son's brain, no seizures, just rot.
> > > > > ------
> > > > >
> > > > > Did you know that an episode of Pokemon caused an outbreak of
> > > > > epileptic
> > > > > seizures among Japanese children a few years ago?  This 
> > is true...
> > > > >
> > > > > http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/abnormal/1997/msg00447.html
> > > > > http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/abnormal/2000/msg00273.html
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't know if other effects on the brain are possible
> > > > > (e.g., prolonged
> > > > > mental dulling), but I wouldn't be surprised at all.  It
> > > > > would imply that
> > > > > you have some sort of epilepsy though (not all epilepsy 
> > results in
> > > > > generalized seizures).
> > > > >
> > > > > Mike
> > > > >
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