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[Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp AT pobox.com>]

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 11:14, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> Sil Greene wrote:
> > 
> > .:Along similar notes, what will the next generation remember of the armed
> > .:conflicts the US was involved in during the last 20 years? I have a few
> > .:undergrads working for me, who were born in the early 1980s. I asked one
> > 
> > Tell them we didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the 
> > world's been turning.  Tho we didn't ignite it, we're tryin' to fight it.
> > 
> 
> On this theme, I'm not sure it's just world events that the younger
> generation doesn't know about.  A friend of mine and I were in a
> bike store a few weeks ago looking at stuff and the song "More Than a
> Feeling" came on.  I asked him if he could name the band and he got
> this blank look on his face.  Ok, I thought to myself, I'll just tell him.
> I was shocked, however, when he had never even heard of them!  I also
> asked him about a similar band of the same era named in a similar
> fashion and he'd never heard of them either.  Now, while the simple
> explanation here might be that he's not into that kind of music, I
> have to wonder about the deeper implications about not remembering
> the past, especially after reading the rest of this thread.
> 

I feel I may have been involved in the above conversation that Tanner
describes. :-)

I feel that I know a decent amount of American history, though certainly
not a huge amount -- just acquainted with the basics.  But how does one
learn about popular culture from a time before one was born?  If I want
to learn about culture of the 19th century, maybe there is some
acclaimed "great" literature available.  And for the 20th century,
movies tell a lot about culture.  But are these accurate?  Does it
matter?    Why would I want to learn this, especially when the music is
bad?  ;-)

--Jeremy

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