What do you think is the important message in the passage below?

Question:"And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through"

--David Bowie--

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: "And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through"

--David Bowie--

Independence and freedom from authority:

The "children" no longer need the opinions of authority figures. The "children" live in, act in, and change the world in which they live, while authority figures merely make judgments, based on the past.

I'd say,"As they try to change their world." I'm not sure if this poem means their world as in children's' imagination, or this world as in planet earth. If they're trying to change this planet, they got a lots to do. We, as an adult, have mess up this world for our children. Our society is very bad. Many teens are drug addict, and the drop out rate are higher. About 5% out of the lower class children will make it out of that class, so they'll need to work hard. I'm glad that there are people who is actually care about this world, and improving it. I hope in future, this world will be a better place in this one. AMEN.

I believe the mesage here speaks to the notion that we as Humans can be overly attached to the way things are in the sense that change is often an unwelcome, and in many cases, a frightening thing. Youth will invariably bring new ideas to our existence and as much as we may resist change, it is an unevitable condition of our existence.

I think it's like Pink Floyds "The Wall", Britons had to get tough to survive WW2 and they pushed their values onto their children. There was a major social backlash from it. Just like in America going into the sixties. Rock artists reach into their past looking for the pain to inspire them, when life gets too good they turn into Bono or Kobain.

peace and love

I think he is writing about a time in life when a young person in their teenage years are having a rough time with the ones they used to love and respect the most in their youth, their parents. And they are seeking both their own identify and their own independence.

The old ones are not giving them space to allow them to breathe and make their own mistakes. Instead they give them "Unwanted" or "embarrassing" advice. Even to the extent of deriding them for going through this time of transition.

This is what I think David Bowie was trying to capture when he wrote those sang those lyrics. Later.

It apparently means that all the the children that you abuse as they try to grow up will not listen to you because they understand what they are going through.

Harleigh Kyson Jr.

I think it's like a war cry for blowing off your parents - not inherently true or false or wise or stupid - just that.