I don't understand why some people will hate something just because it's old

[mbewane]

A big part of our western societies is built on the idea of linear "progress" and "modernity", which stipulates that as time moves forward things get better. Mechanically, that means that old stuff is bad, "backward", etc. A lot of people think like this, and it leads to the reassuring idea that they're own current generation and world in which they live is the best that has ever existed.

 

[TL15]

I think there is just a vast difference between people born in the mid 90s and beyond, to people before (of course there are outliers)

If you were born in 1990... at 10 it was the year 2000. Peak pop culture was friends, cell phones weren’t massively available for kids, we still had VCRs and DVD players were new, the 90s moved much slower. It was more normal for the attention span and tolerance to be higher because technology didn’t move as fast

Fast forward

If someone was born in 1995, by 2005, technology was much different than 2000. Everyone had cell phones, ringtones were big, VCRs were all but done and DVD was it, TiVo/DVRs we’re becoming to norm (I couldn’t have imagined as a kid not having to watch commercials ) so I think once technology started rapidly changing, attention span and tolerance went with it.

That’s a very long winded way of saying “we had less, appreciated more” than just kids born a few years after us. I remember watching Beverly Hills Cop and enjoying it, using the bathroom during commercials and running back to the couch.

But it’s if you can’t respect Coming to America

 

[315]

Anything I haven't seen/heard before is "new" to me

 

[King Khufu]

Anything I haven't seen/heard before is "new" to me

Trill talk.