freshcutgrass
Senior Member
I don't think I understand your point about there being nothing new in the last 30 years, could you explain it because I'm pretty sure there are many thing we use every day now that most people 30 years wouldn't have imagined.
Yeah, I was just being nostalgic with the buddies about those crazy hand held mobile phones with the real time video communication from the other side of the world that we had back in high school in the late 70s.
That's just technology. If anything, social media has had a regressive effect on our ability to communicate. Ever listen to a university educated twenty-something struggle to put together a sentence. That's why the telephone is no longer used as much for "speaking"...we just send pictures and unintelligible text messages.
I was in high school in the late 70's...are you sure you were? There may not have been cell phones, but I can't even count the number of new musical genres that were around. What have youth come up with in the last 30 years...rap? Wearing your pants falling down? Otherwise we have just been recycling old ideas and pretending they are new.
Like Fran Lebowitz said in Public Speaking, "When [Americans say] ‘elite,’ they don't mean rich—America loves rich people—they mean smart.â€
And that's why I love Franny....she's funny...because it's true.
That's why elected officials (Doug Ford) can actually get away with hitting new anti-intellectual lows like attacking "lie berries" and Margaret Atwood.