Comments on: Juno – and now: the reality http://www.tajder.com/archives/134 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:22:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Oliver http://www.tajder.com/archives/134/comment-page-1#comment-93 Oliver Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:37:37 +0000 http://www.tajder.com/archives/134#comment-93 Well it would not be the first time that people follow fads from popular culture in a self-destructive way. After "The Sorrows of Young Werther" apparently 2000 people committed suicide... in 1772! If we compare the general quality of the works a ratio of 2000:17 and then factoring in the relation of suicide:pregnancy as 20000:17 (I assumed that most people rather killed themselves today rather than having to bring up 10 kids) the issue seems appropriately showing the quality of "Juno" compared to Goethe... And young people can't do anything else than copy. That's how fashion is made. And that's where the saying is coming from: It does not make sense to try to educate your kids, sooner or later they will just copy whatever you do anyhow. Well it would not be the first time that people follow fads from popular culture in a self-destructive way. After “The Sorrows of Young Werther” apparently 2000 people committed suicide… in 1772! If we compare the general quality of the works a ratio of 2000:17 and then factoring in the relation of suicide:pregnancy as 20000:17 (I assumed that most people rather killed themselves today rather than having to bring up 10 kids) the issue seems appropriately showing the quality of “Juno” compared to Goethe…

And young people can’t do anything else than copy. That’s how fashion is made. And that’s where the saying is coming from: It does not make sense to try to educate your kids, sooner or later they will just copy whatever you do anyhow.

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