Anagārika Alāra, PhDJun 6

Like celebrity in general (eg, the fueds between Courtney Love and Gwen Stefani), social media amplifies to a societal level things which should be limited to the local area, like the immaturities of high school. Inescapable humiliation often leads to suicide.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/03/can-gen-z-escape-fear-cringe-laughing-stock

#celebrity #socialmedia #society #immaturity #childishness #children #adolescence #highschool #courtneylove #gwenstefani #local #global #humiliation #suicide #mentalhealth

‘You can be made a laughing stock to millions’: can gen Z escape the fear of being cringe?

With the constant risk of being recorded, many young people are afraid of showing enthusiasm – let alone doing something so potentially embarrassing as dancing in public. Is there a way to set themselves free?

The Guardian
Steve Dustcircle 🌹Jan 11

How to (Finally) Grow the F*ck Up

Are people more #immature today than ever before? Is there more #selfishness, #stupidity and #babyrage than prior generations?

In this video, we are going to take a look at how we develop and #mature, what can get in the way of that #maturity, and whether or not there is widespread #narcissistic #childishness happening in #society today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmQPMsFqF9w

How to (Finally) Grow the F*ck Up

YouTube
WIST Quotations Has Moved!Dec 3, 2025

A quotation from Robert Holmes

JO GRANT: Doctor, stop being childish.
THE DOCTOR: What’s wrong with being childish? I like being childish.

Robert Holmes (1926-1986) British television screenwriter
Doctor Who (1963), 08×01 “Terror of the Autons,” Part 3 (1971-01-16)

More about this quote: wist.info/holmes-robert/80575/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #doctorwho #thirddoctor #robertholmes #childishness #doctorwho #immaturity #tantrum

Doctor Who (1963), 08x01 "Terror of the Autons," Part 3 (1971-01-16) - Holmes, Robert | WIST Quotations

JO GRANT: Doctor, stop being childish. THE DOCTOR: What's wrong with being childish? I like being childish. (Source (Video); dialog verified) See also Terence Dicks.

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Dusk2025Nov 7, 2025

"Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation"

The Trump Administration is ideologically purging all branches of government in ways that the USA may never recover from.

This is "End of Empire" behavior.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/hegseth-firing-military-leaders.html

#trump #hegseth #uspol #worldnews #usnews #tantrums #childishness #immaturity #pettiness #partisanship #military #defense

Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation

The moves to fire or sideline generals and admirals are without precedent in recent decades and have rattled the top brass.

The New York Times
WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 25, 2025

A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

MACHIAVEL: I count Religion but a childish Toy,
   And hold there is no sinne but Ignorance.

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Jew of Malta, Act 1, Prologue (c. 1590)

More info about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #christophermarlowe #kitmarlowe #machiavelli #childishness #ignorance #knowledge #religion #sin

The Jew of Malta, Act 1, Prologue (c. 1590) - Marlowe, Christopher | WIST Quotations

MACHIAVEL: I count Religion but a childish Toy, And hold there is no sinne but Ignorance. This speech is often considered the Prologue, but differs from the Prologue at Court and the Prologue to the Stage, and in some editions is set apart from Act 1, in others simply at…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Sep 24, 2025

A quotation from Terrance Dicks

   SARAH JANE: Doctor, you’re being childish!
   THE DOCTOR: Well, of course I am! There’s no point in being grown-up if you can’t be childish sometimes.

Terrance Dicks (1935-2019) English screenwriter, author [pseud. Robin Bland]
Doctor Who (1963), 12×01 “Robot,” Part 4 (1975-01-18)

More info about this quote: wist.info/dicks-terrance/4643/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrancedicks #doctorwho #fourthdoctor #adult #childishness #growingup #grownup #immaturity #maturity

gr8commandmentFeb 13, 2025
Making Sense Out of Our Childless & Childish Age https://buff.ly/4hvvDgl #Christianity #culture #childishness #maturity
Making Sense Out of Our Childless & Childish Age

Our culture tells youth: Live your passions without sacrifice or effort; seek the “trifles” of mediocrity that surround you. Make these “childish things” the objects of existential desire. Let nothing, not even a small child, come between you and them. (essay by John Horvat)

The Imaginative Conservative
Show threadoldguycrustyNov 2, 2024

@wdlindsy

#misogyny
#childishness
#immaturity
#narcissism
Deeply #insecure
#Racism
#cruelty
#sociopath
#Russian pawn
#Putin's batch
#amorale
#Cultism
#Oligarchy

Why is anyone drawn to this disgusting maggot?

I grew up in Christian fundamentalism so I understand cults and brainwashing to some degree, but this lying manipulative pus bag, and people like him, have always pissed me off. I see them from a mile away. And yet I am baffled why anyone gets sucked in.

#StillBaffled

Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Aug 6, 2024

The #doublestandard is #laughable.

In former #President #DonaldTrump’s #RepublicanParty (and it is his party now) #childishness, #cruelty, and #pettiness #reign supreme, the primary focus long ago shifted from #policy to #adhominem attacks where and #women’s #accomplishments are relegated to #irrelevance.

https://kentuckylantern.com/2024/08/06/the-double-standard-is-laughable/

The double standard is laughable • Kentucky Lantern

Republicans are not calling out Trump and other Republicans for insulting Kamala Harris. Wonder why?

Kentucky Lantern
WIST Quotations moves again!Jun 4, 2024

A quotation from Bible, vol. 2, New Testament:

«
When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, and think like a child, and argue like a child, but now I am a man, all childish ways are put behind me.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/bible-nt/40486/

#quote #quotes #quotation #adult #age #child #childhood #childishness #maturity #perspective #sophistication #growingup

1 Corinthians 13:11 [JB (1966)] - Bible, vol. 2, New Testament | WIST Quotations

When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, and think like a child, and argue like a child, but now I am a man, all childish ways are put behind me. Alternate translations: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as…

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