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Macheath · 09-09-2003, 06:48 PM

Forgive me, I've had too much coffee:

I think the first written account of "the good old days" dates from China about 2000 years ago. It's a deep social trait.

Each generation fucks up in its own way, but when they reach the age of fifty or sixty they've managed to write all of this stupid mythology to account for WHY they did what they did even if it wasn't the real reason. The baby boomers are particularly good at doing this.

It's like, "dad, why did you spend the early seventies smoking pot and doing NOTHING"

"well son, it was because of the movie Easy Rider, it was a full on lifestyle, man."

"but dad, you didn't even watch that movie until it was rereleased in 1990."

So they lie and say "we know why OUR generation had fuckups, but they had honorable reasons for being fuckups."

But then they say "we DON'T know why these kids are fuckups, they just must be lazy and stupid." Just like their parents scoffed at those idiot Beatles and that degenerate Elvis. But when the kids of today become old men, they'll probably make up some nonsense about a pervasive psychological war against "the machines" as their reason for sitting in front of the Xbox eating McDonalds.

The whole western diet thing is really fucked up though, there's no disputing that.

09-09-2003, 06:48 PM	#25 (permalink)
Macheath Junkie Location: Sydney, Australia	Forgive me, I've had too much coffee: I think the first written account of "the good old days" dates from China about 2000 years ago. It's a deep social trait. Each generation fucks up in its own way, but when they reach the age of fifty or sixty they've managed to write all of this stupid mythology to account for WHY they did what they did even if it wasn't the real reason. The baby boomers are particularly good at doing this. It's like, "dad, why did you spend the early seventies smoking pot and doing NOTHING" "well son, it was because of the movie Easy Rider, it was a full on lifestyle, man." "but dad, you didn't even watch that movie until it was rereleased in 1990." So they lie and say "we know why OUR generation had fuckups, but they had honorable reasons for being fuckups." But then they say "we DON'T know why these kids are fuckups, they just must be lazy and stupid." Just like their parents scoffed at those idiot Beatles and that degenerate Elvis. But when the kids of today become old men, they'll probably make up some nonsense about a pervasive psychological war against "the machines" as their reason for sitting in front of the Xbox eating McDonalds. The whole western diet thing is really fucked up though, there's no disputing that.