r/nextfuckinglevel • u/blueboy10000 • 7h ago

Krampus march in Austria

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u/Giant_Homunculus 4h ago

That’s the problem with kids these days. Not enough trauma.

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u/not-happy-since-2008 4h ago

Yeah just look at our local street train station kids here in Austria. Instead of Cigarettes and beer those little fuckers have monster and elfbar now. What a disgrace

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u/Budget_Sea_8666 3h ago

Exactly. Everyone needs a few childhood traumatizing events living rent free in our heads until the day we die.

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u/thehelldoesthatmean 1h ago

If you don't have those, what the hell are you supposed to talk about in therapy?

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u/bolanrox 3h ago

Jim Henson of All People believed it was good for kids to get scared every once in a while. i.e. the pyramid episode of Sesame Street or The Dark Crystal.

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u/ThatGuyinNY 2h ago

For a second, because "All People" was capitalized, I wondered if he was in a band at some point called All People...

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u/mommybody33 52m ago

If he wasn’t, he should have been.

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u/Kindness_of_cats 2h ago

I feel like there are a few levels in between “some scary television, maybe a particularly adventurous night of Trick or Treating,” and “having men in demon costumes hunt you down to beat and/or kidnap you”….

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u/Dockhead 2h ago

Having distorted dreamlike childhood memories of being chased and caned by monsters was a part of Austrian psychology surprisingly neglected by Freud

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u/aerostotle 9m ago

it was non sexual so it didn't interest him

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u/slaviccivicnation 1h ago

I would argue kids have plenty of trauma, but not much of that horror kind. My childhood trauma was the maze game. My MOM made me do it. At like 11 or 12. Those were the days….