Kids show us the most
raw things in our culture. They pick up our
obsessions with
sex and
violence while understanding neither of them. They establish
pecking orders among each other, form into knots, follow the examples that they see in
older people, too
young to not say the things they're not supposed to say and not see the things they're not supposed to see. A child does everything for the sheer enjoyment of it, and most of them do it for
personal gain alone, having not learned
altruism yet -- and we call it cute.
Having said that, I love kids, at least the pure ones, the ones that society hasn't bogged down with all its shit, which is to say, anyone under the age of five, when the pressures of school and television begin to influence them. I have two little cousins that are the cutest things in the world, and I make faces at babies i see everywhere -- I've gotten children to stop crying in stores just through surreptitious goofy looks.
Yeah, i guess Kids are Cool.