My childhood was…better.

Remember when you were a kid, and you’d watch Sunday morning cartoons, if you woke yourself up early enough?

I just saw the current state of this childhood culture, and it’s…..interesting.

See I work night shift, and during the weekends I stay up to 7am to keep my routine normal, we also have digital cable, so I’ll see tv programming hours earlier on the three digit channels.

So the tv is displaying one of these Sunday morning cartoon channels, and on it was a show called “Sonic X” (see, this post is slightly relevant) Sonic X was fairly screwed up; Sonic’s characterized as a golden hearted egotistical badass, who acts tough, and loves nothing more than running around in a coke-fueled manner, with this is mind: Sonic’s the more balanced main character. Sonic is also accompanied by a young boy who’s bubbling with emotions like a premenstrual chick; he ran around the whole episode thinking no one cares about him, and that people fake relationships with him, he even said to Sonic “You run so fast, and move around so much, I’m sure one day you’ll forget about me entirely…” The whole show was ridiculously serious, and emotional (Eggman was a terrorist threatening the president)

But that’s not the fucked up part; the whole kids morning program promised lots of other childrens cartoons later, but you know what they showed after Sonic? A classical 50s family sitcom.  I use the word sitcom very lightly: there was a ineffective laugh track, and that’s it. The whole show floated around vanilla conflicts suited for a family that isn’t in tune with the real world to a single degree.

I suppose that’s just how humans have developed intellectually; our sense of humor, and openness to the crude state of where we live are more keen. When you watch these old shows you don’t laugh at all, in fact you often find the characters to be complete morons, in a way not meant for comedy, but more a reflection of the past world’s ignorance to everything around them. It’ll be amazing looking back at old programming many many decades from now, and witnessing how far we’ve evolved over our own life time.