Anthropology of the Big Bang

[wellplayedpenny]

There's an implication that perpetual adolescence is a bad thing. Retaining a sense of wonder, idealism and hope for the future is a lot better than becoming cynical, world-weary and hopeless. If that's what being an adult means I'd rather remain an overgrown teenager.

Hence why I distinguished between childlike and childish. At least here I'm seeing far less of the former and too much of the latter in those who are in their 20s,30s,40s+.

And I disagree that becoming cynical, world-weary and hopeless is a rite of passage into adulthood. Taking personal responsibility is. And I'm seeing less and less of it.

I mean look at the show--Leonard and Amy and Bernadette take no responsibility for their actions, in fact the writers make it that there are no repercussions for their actions. Are they well-adjusted adults or whiny self-centered egotists? Howard and the rest of the guys have become incompetent and infantile as opposed to their previous incarnations. IMO they were childlike, for sure, in the early seasons but they were also adults. That's what made them attractive, at least to me. As my niece would say, they 'grew up in the right way'.

It's this idea TPTB are pressing that A/B are 'adults' and that the guys need to 'grow up' that I find repulsive, frustrating and Hulk smash-y. The guys are adults, and when TPTB took that part of them away it made their interests in comic books, etc seem infantile because only infantile people would have hobbies such as this--which, as we know, is dead wrong.