I talk to a wide swath of people in the wild. I usually walk away feeling like I spoke to a really nice person who speaks in a lot of tropes and doesn't say anything original. More than ever. I've been trying to figure out why that is, away from our political zeitgeist (which I never bring up or really weigh in on btw). At any rate, I've been trying to really flesh out why people seem so devoid of ideas that aren't exhaustingly cliche. And then it dawned on me. There has been a vacuum of cool music scenes for 30 years. God. It was so important.
What got me thinking about this, was that I rolled up on an old Beavis and Butter segment where they were making fun of an Eddie Money song that seemed ancient at the time, but it was only ten years old then. But between '83 and '93, music underwent so many waves. From about '52 to '93, you could really get an idea of what the era was, just by the music of the time. Whereas the last 30 years seem like a blur without a lot of delineation. All that change in music naturally and stylistically lent itself to truly original and different ways of thinking (philosophy, religion, love, rebellion and on and on)... without even trying. And man... do I think people under 40 have been deprived of that... not to mention all the cool natural rivalries between scenes that were petty at the time, but innocent and fun (rednecks and headbangers versus the skaters and punks was a big one during my youth), but I digress.
I think people born between about 1940 and 1975 were born in a sweet spot to where they really got to experience the greatest cultural renaissance ever. And that really lent itself to a natural assist in being well versed conversationalists..
I give my boomer friends shit, mainly for being FOS. It's a fun, natural pastime. But I'll give them on thing. They can carry on a conversation effortlessly compared to a Millinneal and Zoomer. Dunno. I think the good music set the backdrop for a lot of cool life experiences they can draw on to tell stories about getting high at concerts, chasing coos, going to the drunk tank, getting a shot of penicillin on Monday and on and on.
What got me thinking about this, was that I rolled up on an old Beavis and Butter segment where they were making fun of an Eddie Money song that seemed ancient at the time, but it was only ten years old then. But between '83 and '93, music underwent so many waves. From about '52 to '93, you could really get an idea of what the era was, just by the music of the time. Whereas the last 30 years seem like a blur without a lot of delineation. All that change in music naturally and stylistically lent itself to truly original and different ways of thinking (philosophy, religion, love, rebellion and on and on)... without even trying. And man... do I think people under 40 have been deprived of that... not to mention all the cool natural rivalries between scenes that were petty at the time, but innocent and fun (rednecks and headbangers versus the skaters and punks was a big one during my youth), but I digress.
I think people born between about 1940 and 1975 were born in a sweet spot to where they really got to experience the greatest cultural renaissance ever. And that really lent itself to a natural assist in being well versed conversationalists..
I give my boomer friends shit, mainly for being FOS. It's a fun, natural pastime. But I'll give them on thing. They can carry on a conversation effortlessly compared to a Millinneal and Zoomer. Dunno. I think the good music set the backdrop for a lot of cool life experiences they can draw on to tell stories about getting high at concerts, chasing coos, going to the drunk tank, getting a shot of penicillin on Monday and on and on.
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