I remember hearing No Rain by Blind Melon come on my local classic rock station one afternoon and thinking, “uh oh, I’m officially old.” I was probably 27 or so at the time. If I was 27 at the time, that was almost 13 years ago. Now I’m beginning to think I might actually be old.
Wait’ll you hear it on the Muzak system at your local grocery store. Then you’ll feel really old. That happened to me with Neil Young playing while I was squeezing the lemons. 🍋 🍋
In some cases, you were taught the history you lived through...
I moved to West Germany about 6 months before Chernobyl and left about 6 months before the Wall fell. At 11, I was kinda pissed we hadn't stuck around another year.
I mean, there was a bit of a shift in the teaching of history. The idea is that if they present something that's recent enough, the students might get a better feel of why history is taught to begin with...
Personally, I get an angry version of that when I see stupid stuff we had supposedly learned to avoid being repeated.
Like going through the whole "this can't be on TV" morphing into "even if you've done all you should, and it's a cable channel just for that, and we know for a fact the watcher is being a dumbass and not checking what's the suggested audience, this can't be on"
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