As someone who was born in 1969, it sometimes feels like people think I grew up in a cave banging rocks together for entertainment. I think it might be that there has truly been a dramatic shift in how people learn about things. It’s like now that everyone can pull up a bazillion people recording events and watch them unfold it is harder for them to connect to the previous generations, where we all had vaguely similar experiences of information transmission. It isn’t hard for me to believe that sending a letter in the 18th century could take weeks or even months for it to arrive and a response get back to a person. I grew up seeing disclaimers that a response to a letter or order could take 6-8 weeks from a company in the US. Nowadays we get ordering stuff from overseas could take that long, but something from within the states? It’s unconscionable that it would take 2 weeks.
For a blast from the past deal with the irs who give me 6 week time frames mostly that they often miss and update me that it will be another. I was thinking a bit like this recently when I saw appletv had blocked off peanuts which is going to make things very different. Growing up every one saw the peanuts holloween, thanksgiving, and xmass specials along with its a wonderful life, miracle on 34th street, rudolph, frosty, etc. Due to broadcast tv we had a ton of cultural adhesion with watercooler shows like friends and seinfeld and such. With everything gated now that just is not a thing anymore really.
As someone who was born in 1969, it sometimes feels like people think I grew up in a cave banging rocks together for entertainment. I think it might be that there has truly been a dramatic shift in how people learn about things. It’s like now that everyone can pull up a bazillion people recording events and watch them unfold it is harder for them to connect to the previous generations, where we all had vaguely similar experiences of information transmission. It isn’t hard for me to believe that sending a letter in the 18th century could take weeks or even months for it to arrive and a response get back to a person. I grew up seeing disclaimers that a response to a letter or order could take 6-8 weeks from a company in the US. Nowadays we get ordering stuff from overseas could take that long, but something from within the states? It’s unconscionable that it would take 2 weeks.
So what did you bang together for entertainment?
Each other, mostly.
For a blast from the past deal with the irs who give me 6 week time frames mostly that they often miss and update me that it will be another. I was thinking a bit like this recently when I saw appletv had blocked off peanuts which is going to make things very different. Growing up every one saw the peanuts holloween, thanksgiving, and xmass specials along with its a wonderful life, miracle on 34th street, rudolph, frosty, etc. Due to broadcast tv we had a ton of cultural adhesion with watercooler shows like friends and seinfeld and such. With everything gated now that just is not a thing anymore really.