Mystic
We're all born mad
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The Myth: "The good ole days"
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Mystic
We're all born mad
Varies from person to person.
Yup, these are going to be someone else's good ol' days. Kind of like music. It'll be like "in my day the music was better"
I believe things seemed better when we were young simply because we were young. Being young is usually better than being old.
Our society certainly feels that way. Look at all the advertising and music and entertainment. Most of it is aimed at a demographic that's young, below 40. Regardless of the fact that they have little expendable income.
I can't count the number of times i've walked into a music or guitar shop and been completely ignored by the staff...simply because I'm of a certain age and not considered cool. The fact that I can actually afford to pay their prices makes no difference.
Our society certainly feels that way. Look at all the advertising and music and entertainment. Most of it is aimed at a demographic that's young, below 40. Regardless of the fact that they have little expendable income.
I can't count the number of times i've walked into a music or guitar shop and been completely ignored by the staff...simply because I'm of a certain age and not considered cool. The fact that I can actually afford to pay their prices makes no difference.
Around 2007, I ponied up for a 1080i 34'' and 300 lb Sony flat glass CRT.
That thing had the strongest blacks I've seen. The color was so damn good.
Lightning took it from me. I still miss that huge thing.
Society despises the elderly. It reminds us of the debt we all must pay, and the human brain is very good at rationalizing behavior that supports what we like, and denies what we do not.
Sad, but true, I feel. Me, I love old folks. Teens with a coat of experience, is what I always think.
SolderIron
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jocko_nc
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I have been pondering a similar concept: Technology and the word in general is advancing so quickly, and that the rate of change is accelerating. I am not so sure.
Consider 2000 to 2022. Twenty-two years. Consider any other twenty-two year spread of the past century, especially during world war years. Take 1940. Add twenty-two years to that you get 1962. Now consider 1940 to 1962. The cars. The planes. Aerospace. Medicine. Communications. Now THAT is change. WWII went from early monoplanes with lots of wood, to the most advanced prop planes ever made, to jets in five years. Rockets. Radar. Electronics. Commercial jet travel. Cars: Go from a 1939 jalopy to a pretty sweet '62 'Vette. It marvels me that the Iowa class battleship was developed and deployed in a handful of years, only to be made obsolete by carriers and naval jets. Hell, the carriers went nuclear in that period of time. Nuke powered subs. Look at how politics and world maps have changed. Civil rights in many countries, former colonies. The entire WWII era was resolved in six years. Conflicts now go on indefinitely. Afganistan, whatever that was, went on for twenty.
2000 to 2022 seems to me an effort to hold onto the status quo. What is really changng, except for the power of our hand-held digital devices? Smaller, faster, more. The basic operation is the essentially the same. The Internet? A lot "more", but a lot of the same companies doing the same things on a grander and more complicated way. Share GIF files. Share MPG files. Share movie files. Share HD. Stream HD. Think Google will ever be supplanted in the next decade? Ever? How has transportation changed? Air travel? Sometimes I think with the exception of some medical technology and "Tech", we have actually regressed since 2000. As things are looking going forward, there may be a lot more regressing ahead. I think we are seeing the result of massive mis-allocation of resources.
Obviously, my observations come from someone who came of age in the USA in the 80s. My perspective is skewed.
Consider 2000 to 2022. Twenty-two years. Consider any other twenty-two year spread of the past century, especially during world war years. Take 1940. Add twenty-two years to that you get 1962. Now consider 1940 to 1962. The cars. The planes. Aerospace. Medicine. Communications. Now THAT is change. WWII went from early monoplanes with lots of wood, to the most advanced prop planes ever made, to jets in five years. Rockets. Radar. Electronics. Commercial jet travel. Cars: Go from a 1939 jalopy to a pretty sweet '62 'Vette. It marvels me that the Iowa class battleship was developed and deployed in a handful of years, only to be made obsolete by carriers and naval jets. Hell, the carriers went nuclear in that period of time. Nuke powered subs. Look at how politics and world maps have changed. Civil rights in many countries, former colonies. The entire WWII era was resolved in six years. Conflicts now go on indefinitely. Afganistan, whatever that was, went on for twenty.
2000 to 2022 seems to me an effort to hold onto the status quo. What is really changng, except for the power of our hand-held digital devices? Smaller, faster, more. The basic operation is the essentially the same. The Internet? A lot "more", but a lot of the same companies doing the same things on a grander and more complicated way. Share GIF files. Share MPG files. Share movie files. Share HD. Stream HD. Think Google will ever be supplanted in the next decade? Ever? How has transportation changed? Air travel? Sometimes I think with the exception of some medical technology and "Tech", we have actually regressed since 2000. As things are looking going forward, there may be a lot more regressing ahead. I think we are seeing the result of massive mis-allocation of resources.
Obviously, my observations come from someone who came of age in the USA in the 80s. My perspective is skewed.
Growing up in the 60's it was just as bad. Helped to teach me how not to be an old man.
Mystic
We're all born mad
Mystic
We're all born mad
I rather enjoyed The Sixites and no, I weren't no weed-smokin', glue-huffin', acid-droppin' hippie and all that jazz; I was jus' a "tween" (I think those years are called now?) who scored his first geetars (acoustic and 'lectric), geetar amp, geetar teacher, and divided time b/w Chicago and Provincetown, MA. Seventies were a lotta fun b/c that's when the conert-going got underway, girls-going got underway, driving motorcycles and hot cars got underway, etc. But for me The Sixties will always be the solid. Dig.
Pio1980
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I was a child of the 1950s, but the 1970s was my age of self discovery.
The technology explosion was sparked by and during the late nine 'teens WW-1. Engine tech, aircraft, wireless communications, ect, took off in the twenties and largely matured in the 1930s with television broadcasting becoming practical. Post-WW-2 brought jet aviation, transistor solid-state, atomic energy, "big science". Integrated micro-electronics continues to innovate and suprize, the last hundred years have been fast history.
The technology explosion was sparked by and during the late nine 'teens WW-1. Engine tech, aircraft, wireless communications, ect, took off in the twenties and largely matured in the 1930s with television broadcasting becoming practical. Post-WW-2 brought jet aviation, transistor solid-state, atomic energy, "big science". Integrated micro-electronics continues to innovate and suprize, the last hundred years have been fast history.
Mystic
We're all born mad
Disneyland is supposed to be Chicago circa 1900-1910? Well, I guess if you throw up a few structures 'n not include the stench of thousands of livestock being slaughtered daily and...
Pio1980
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Hermosa, suburb of Chi, afaik.
Mystic
We're all born mad
Hermosa ... near Chicago ... I don't know this suburb ~ exburb. Hermosa Beach @ LA Basin's South Bay I know ... lived there a few years in the late 1990s-early 2000s.
Update: wait, there is an area called Hermosa in Kelvyn Park, which is a (close proximity) suburb of Chicago, northwest side.
Disney grew up in the Kelvyn Park area? Didn't know that. There it is, and it's where the Schwinn factory used to be. Looks like it's in the 20th ward.