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In reply to the discussion: To the Fuckety Fuck Squad -- Congratulations on your success! [View all]planetc
(7,808 posts)Good morning, Warren--
" As well as someone who thinks supporting marriage equality and the right of consenting adults to choose who to fuck "love", sorry --- is some sort of indicator of groundbreaking levels of enlightenment. Don't get me wrong, both are commendable stances, of course. But they're also sort of obvious, no-brainers.)
last thing I want to do is re-ignite the "age wars" (no one needs the air of GD filled with flying teeth, again) .... but by my math that puts you well into AARP territory.
1/4 of the Earth's population, was born after the year 2000. Something like 2/3 of everyone on Earth was born after Woodstock.
I know this is crushing news that you may not want to hear, but even those of us who worked through our adolescent angst with Johnny Rotten or David Byrne or Deborah Harry or Michael Stipe, are getting old. Sorry to break it to you, but....
you may not have your finger on the pulse of the culture.
And, by extension, how "much of the populace" feels. Especially about something like the internet."
I don't think supporting marriage equality and free love, or free fucking for that matter, in 2014, are evidence of a "groundbreaking level of enlightenment"--I am rejoicing that society has finally caught up with those who supported those causes in the 1960s, when they were groundbreaking. And I'd hate to think there is no difference between making love and fucking. I think there is. But I digress from your main point, which has to do with my age and whether or not I am in touch culturally. I am 71-1/2 hears old at the moment, and have been following the growth, then explosion of the internet since the web came up. You aren't saying that only millennials can understand what goes on on the web? Or in the world in general? I don't think you'd want to go that far.
As for the elderliness of the musicians you mention, I note that the Stones and Paul McCartney have been doing rock concerts for 50 years, and can still deliver the goods. Their fans pay good money to see them do it. So old is sometimes simply standard-setting, not past it.
But I do feel that much of the populace may be very tired of the barrage of vulgarisms that--what? constitutes current culture, you think? Has it occurred to you that there is culture outside of the internet? And that the internet is one of the few venues where you can get away with? One of the few other venues would be sports bars. Has it occurred to you that full throated vulgarity may be a fashion? Like hula hoops and chia pets and $80. sneakers? Do you ever worry that the FFS might be on its way out? There are some values that don't go out of fashion, and a civil tongue is one.