When I was a child, the 1960's were only 20 years prior. The trends and ideas were thought of as old and outdated. It wasn't glamorized in any way. I still remember my father had an 8 track player and I unironicly had a record player.
It also wasn't uncommon to know someone born in the late 1800's (like my great grandfather)
Almost all of my classmates grandparents served in WWII. Some of my classmates parents were Vietnam vets
I remember watching the OJ Simpson chase and trial. The televised POTUS address where Clinton looked at me and told me he didn't have sexual relations with some intern (it was on at 9pm on CBS after Everybody Loves Raymond). Heck I even remember watching an Entertainment Tonight where they interviewed upcoming actors/actresses for a new sitcom called Friends. I experienced Columbine since I was the same age as the shooters...and as an adult I can relive 911 like it just happened. I was in college and just started working at Walmart. At my orientation my hiring manager was bragging about how she just had given blood two days before and knew it had probably been used for the survivors. Then my co-workers and I poured over all the tabloid articles at the registers claiming Notradumus predicted the attacks.
Anyway, all that to say...it is funny and cracks me up to read "conspiracies" about some of these events....and then watch others become glorified, for reasons I can't even think of. For example...none of the cool kids watched friends. The airhead cheerleaders and your mom watched Friends. My grandparents had a midcentury 1960's table in their garage that greasy car parts sat on, those things are worth thousands today. The stories I would hear about the depression, like it had just happened. It's weird to think there are almost three generations of kids now who grew up or are growing up outside of that world. It really has struck me when I realize we have full grown adults whose only context of this world started in 2000. It's baffling.
When I was a child, the 1960's were only 20 years prior. The trends and ideas were thought of as old and outdated. It wasn't glamorized in any way. I still remember my father had an 8 track player and I unironicly had a record player.
It also wasn't uncommon to know someone born in the late 1800's (like my great grandfather)
Almost all of my classmates grandparents served in WWII. Some of my classmates parents were Vietnam vets
I remember watching the OJ Simpson chase and trial. The televised POTUS address where Clinton looked at me and told me he didn't have sexual relations with some intern (it was on at 9pm on CBS after Everybody Loves Raymond). Heck I even remember watching an Entertainment Tonight where they interviewed upcoming actors/actresses for a new sitcom called Friends. I experienced Columbine since I was the same age as the shooters...and as an adult I can relive 911 like it just happened. I was in college and just started working at Walmart. At my orientation my hiring manager was bragging about how she just had given blood two days before and knew it had probably been used for the survivors. Then my co-workers and I poured over all the tabloid articles at the registers claiming Notradumus predicted the attacks.
Anyway, all that to say...it is funny and cracks me up to read "conspiracies" about some of these events....and then watch others become glorified, for reasons I can't even think of. For example...none of the cool kids watched friends. The airhead cheerleaders and your mom watched Friends. My grandparents had a midcentury 1960's table in their garage that greasy car parts sat on, those things are worth thousands today. The stories I would hear about the depression, like it had just happened. It's weird to think there are almost three generations of kids now who grew up or are growing up outside of that world. It really has struck me when I realize we have full grown adults whose only context of this world started in 2000. It's baffling.
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