tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post942716490378168560..comments2024-03-22T17:14:36.551-04:00Comments on Wasteland And Sky: Shallow GroundsJD Cowanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03548340507655076198noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-9290025738623429182017-11-29T12:24:41.662-05:002017-11-29T12:24:41.662-05:00Nostalgia is definitely not relegated solely to Mi...Nostalgia is definitely not relegated solely to Millennials. I'm not all that sure it ever existed on a wide scale before Boomers, since they were the first comfortable generation, but it appears to be a fixture for modern life now.<br /><br />It might be because things are always getting worse, or because their youth actually was better, or maybe some combination of the two, but I think it all has a common denominator in believing the present isn't all it's cracked up to be.<br /><br />There's nothing wrong with reflecting and respecting ones youth, but I have never met a happy man who still lives there into adulthood and isn't a neurotic, depressed mess.<br /><br />Nostalgia is almost like a religion these days.<br /><br />Thanks for the comment! It's given me a bit to think about.JD Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03548340507655076198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-75378303614210012782017-11-29T11:07:47.265-05:002017-11-29T11:07:47.265-05:00There's a strange nostalgia for the 80s, proba...There's a strange nostalgia for the 80s, probably because despite the modern denigration of the era where we opposed the Soviets and watched music videos on tv, there was an honesty and a 'bigness' to it. <br /><br />I dunno though it its just millennials. Hegel's weedly fingers reach to all, with the foolish belief that 'novelty is improvement' and 'becoming.' I find that the reference based culture is a bizarre mixture of people wanting to attach themselves to a time when they were younger, more innocent, and happier. <br /><br />For every man, his youth was Arcadia. <br /><br />Maybe the referential stuff in its way is like people sitting and singing songs in Babylon? They want their homeland, but they've exiled themselves from it. <br /><br />I might be being too philosophical based on a mix of illness and cold medicine though. :/ Spookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08964225365016966994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-15304980939393472522017-11-23T15:26:46.863-05:002017-11-23T15:26:46.863-05:00This is a real shame. There's so much these ki...This is a real shame. There's so much these kids are missing, and they don't even know it! <br /><br />I'm sure the school system is also to blame. I remember very little in what I learned in school, and most of what I do know was cobbled together by what I pursued myself. And I'm still learning now.<br /><br />Thanks for stopping by!JD Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03548340507655076198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-12191566861954283532017-11-23T15:12:20.503-05:002017-11-23T15:12:20.503-05:00"He's so unhip that when you say Dylan, h..."He's so unhip that when you say Dylan, he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas, whoever he was. The man ain't got no culture." <br /><br />The problem with my children's generation, I think, is that they can't make deep references, because they don't know what they are. I work at a university, and I have talked with faculty members who have never read Milton or Shelley or Eliot. They think Nineteen Eighty Four was written about the Republican Party. They were taught by highly paid teachers that people in "the olden days" were stupid and evil. Think Romeo And Juliet is a love story with Leo Dicaprio and Clare Danes. I've talked with people--people who teach on a University level--who honestly believe that computers were invented in the 1980s and refuse to believe that the US was ever at war with Japan. (Those are both examples from conversations I've had. Someone was complaining about Trump's alleged disrespect in his recent visit to Japan and finished by saying, "And Japan is one country the US has never been at war with." I laughed, and then I realized that she was serious. And the other one was someone who said that the reason that more people had jobs in the 1970s was because computers hadn't been invented yet.) Misha Burnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16050644222308563279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-32253255905350687782017-11-23T14:17:44.268-05:002017-11-23T14:17:44.268-05:00The reaction to that trailer has honestly been my ...The reaction to that trailer has honestly been my pop culture highlight of the year.JD Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03548340507655076198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-48835131179362252492017-11-23T14:06:05.698-05:002017-11-23T14:06:05.698-05:00Luckily, Millennial influence in pop culture is al...Luckily, Millennial influence in pop culture is already waning. See the massive yawns that greeted the Ready Player One trailer.Brian Niemeierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15276948258089365826noreply@blogger.com