There’s a documentary about this called Class Action Park that’s absolutely wild. They interview a bunch of former employees, and I can’t emphasize enough to people who don’t remember it how much the attitudes described epitomized a large portion of 80s and 90s youth culture in America. Which was simultaneously rad and a fucking nightmare, because so much of it was synonymous with just being a reckless shithead, lol.
I just finished watching that after seeing your comment. Damn, that was really interesting.
I grew up going to a similar, but seemingly much less dangerous (I assume…) park here in Australia called Jamberoo which looks like it’s still open. Like looking into a weird dangerous alternate reality world lol
Times were a lot more entertaining to go out and experience some crazy shit before everyone had a camera everywhere. I can’t really explain in a way that could truly be understood the type tether that’s just in people’s unconscious minds that have grown up over the last 20 or so years. That you could do or see or experience something dangerous or risky or stupid or embarrassing and all it would be is a story among people. No proof. No hard evidence. No everlasting consequences for letting loose if you didn’t hurt yourself or others.
Now days it’s a worry that your mind processes and analyzes so quickly and automatically that you’re barely aware anymore that it was a part of your thought process. The world went from knowing there wasn’t someone recording, to knowing someone was. It’s both bad and good, but I can only promise you that the good portions of the time before, that have become lost for all future generations…well, it really sucks that it was an experience you’ll never get to have. All the world wide web and the cameras are great, but it’s just a shame that the world had to lose some of its other good parts to get it. Being able to be reckless had its upsides. Hell; so did getting punched if you had it coming, or the other way around.
There’s a documentary about this called Class Action Park that’s absolutely wild. They interview a bunch of former employees, and I can’t emphasize enough to people who don’t remember it how much the attitudes described epitomized a large portion of 80s and 90s youth culture in America. Which was simultaneously rad and a fucking nightmare, because so much of it was synonymous with just being a reckless shithead, lol.
I just finished watching that after seeing your comment. Damn, that was really interesting.
I grew up going to a similar, but seemingly much less dangerous (I assume…) park here in Australia called Jamberoo which looks like it’s still open. Like looking into a weird dangerous alternate reality world lol
Times were a lot more entertaining to go out and experience some crazy shit before everyone had a camera everywhere. I can’t really explain in a way that could truly be understood the type tether that’s just in people’s unconscious minds that have grown up over the last 20 or so years. That you could do or see or experience something dangerous or risky or stupid or embarrassing and all it would be is a story among people. No proof. No hard evidence. No everlasting consequences for letting loose if you didn’t hurt yourself or others.
Now days it’s a worry that your mind processes and analyzes so quickly and automatically that you’re barely aware anymore that it was a part of your thought process. The world went from knowing there wasn’t someone recording, to knowing someone was. It’s both bad and good, but I can only promise you that the good portions of the time before, that have become lost for all future generations…well, it really sucks that it was an experience you’ll never get to have. All the world wide web and the cameras are great, but it’s just a shame that the world had to lose some of its other good parts to get it. Being able to be reckless had its upsides. Hell; so did getting punched if you had it coming, or the other way around.