tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post4418543005768883972..comments2024-03-27T23:28:20.274-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Helicopter parents feel jealous when their kid is with another familyagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-42363173498711184952014-05-30T09:37:28.182-04:002014-05-30T09:37:28.182-04:00It all started with air-conditioning.It all started with air-conditioning.Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-48592613426688530562014-05-01T21:39:26.269-04:002014-05-01T21:39:26.269-04:00Interesting link, Robert, but that claims it was b...Interesting link, Robert, but that claims it was both Gein and Beck. And Bloch is not on the record denying the connection. The page cites "Once Around the Bloch" for him saying he knew little of the details, particularly about Gein as a person, but in the same book he says Gein was the inspiration (though the character of Norman Bates is his own invention), not surprising since he lived just 40 miles away. He even wrote "The Shambles of Ed Gein" after "Psycho".TGGPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11017651009634767649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-31187771771980631722014-05-01T07:53:06.187-04:002014-05-01T07:53:06.187-04:00TGGP: Yeah, I know...I've always lived in &quo...TGGP: Yeah, I know...I've always lived in "flyover country," so that probably influences my experiences as well. Growing up in the South, I still can't believe there are more Hispanics than blacks. There's no way. LOL.FWGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-55789808853506550512014-05-01T04:57:03.115-04:002014-05-01T04:57:03.115-04:00Calvin Thomas Beck was the real-life inspiration f...Calvin Thomas Beck was the real-life inspiration for Norman Bates.<br /><br />Robert Bloch denied the Ed Gein connection.<br /><br />http://www.bmonster.com/horror29.htmlRobert the Wisenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-6078441182417365532014-04-30T21:40:12.806-04:002014-04-30T21:40:12.806-04:00"Now you know where Norman Bates came from.&q..."Now you know where Norman Bates came from."<br />He's a fictional character who came from the mind of Robert Bloch. But Ed Gein was real.<br /><br />FWG: That's the law of small numbers for you. I've lived with foreigners for years, and worked with them at pretty much every job.TGGPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11017651009634767649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-27844982367908132212014-04-30T14:58:31.044-04:002014-04-30T14:58:31.044-04:00Older people cocoon.
This on language use by olde...<i>Older people cocoon.</i><br /><br />This on language use by older people is instructive - http://conversations.marketing-partners.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Word-topics-age_journal.pone_.0073791.g005.png<br /><br />http://www.socialtrakr.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/156943_489167748414_8394258414_5973433_1649405_n.jpg<br /><br />Older people are much more people loving. You can see they use collective pronouns much more, talk about family and friends much more, use more positive emotions. <br /><br />These language trends don't seem to show any kind of Silents, Boomers, Gen X, Millenials oscillations, just seem to be more or less linear. It seems like, whatever age you are, younger people are more bratty.<br /><br />But older people are also, ancedotally, less interested in various exciting forms of socialising like parties, drinking, etc, and are probably less interested in new people compared to long standing families and friends. So some of this may tie to the sociability/violence cycle.Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-17382738877667180582014-04-30T14:34:43.616-04:002014-04-30T14:34:43.616-04:00I can't believe the 4/10/20% figures. It seem...I can't believe the 4/10/20% figures. It seems I know hardly anyone not born in the US that lives here. That applies to my girlfriend's parents now but before that, no one in my immediate social circle.FWGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-87167115901179385732014-04-30T13:04:22.027-04:002014-04-30T13:04:22.027-04:00you make some excellent observations
but one of t...you make some excellent observations<br /><br />but one of the other causes of our cocooning times has been drop in birth rates, which resulted in a much older population in 2010 than in 1990. Older people cocoon. Also the children in the 50s and 60s had younger parents than children born after 1980 and less siblings.<br /><br />while the rise in cocooning has helped push the crime rate down, so has the aging of the population and the record percentage of people in prison today.<br /><br />I believe the rise in cocooning was the result of a combination of factors. The rise of cable TV, the increase in college educated people, the reduced birth rate and increased immigration.<br /><br />people were more outgoing in the 70s and 80s, because there were more young people and most people shared a common culture. Everyone grew up watching the same TV, listening to the same music and most young people in the 70s and 80s had grandparents born in America. it was far easier to socialize with strangers in the 80s, since we had more in common culturally than those who grew up after 1990.<br /><br />This started to change in the 90s, as young people more and more young people were raised by immigrant parents or were immigrants themselves. There were less young people and even less "American" young people, as the number of immigrants started to effect this generation. in 1990 10% of people were born outside America verse 4% in 1970 (the record low) <br /><br />by 2000 the amount of young people born outside America was 20%.<br />also significant is where the foreign born were born, as shown below<br /><br />1980 2010<br />1. Mexico - Mexico <br />2. Germany - China <br />3. Canada - India<br />4. Italy - Philippines<br />5. Britain - Vietnam<br /><br />not only do we have triple the immigrants, we no longer have immigrants from western nations which share our culture. This results in a less common culture, more fragmentation, less interaction, more cocooning.jovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17255734827055994617noreply@blogger.com