Overwhelm

A walk in City Hall overwhelmed me with the generation of 'kids' decked in spaghetti tops, hot-shorts, dollied-faces, self-conscious expressions. Trust me, its not the good type of 'overwhelm'. It reminded me of the OTaku culture as criticized in 'Neon Genesis Evangelion', simultaneous to the Japanese youths of anime-avid fans 'obsessed' in anime productions, resulting in an insufficient or absent interest in a world outside the anime-realms. Compare that with Singapore's 'otaku-culture', is a generation of Singapore youths absorbed in having fun, with each other, oblivious to the realities beyond their teenage years. I'm sure i've been there before, or rather my 'Otaku culture' was obsessed in books. Then again, i can't help being critical of the school-aged children today. Attributing it to the education system would be an easy way out, blaming the government is always the easy way out of relating responsibility to self; attribution to the family culture portrays the generation as the 'innocent victims'; attribution to the youths themselves reflect a 'monkey-see-monkey-do' generation.