Ame to everything you said, especially your last point...is the point *I* keep trying to drive home. Its like the younger generations are all agog over the hippie/70s fashion/calling cards....and I keep having to tell them “I REMEMBER what it was like...even NOW they cant pretty it up...it was ugly then and its ugly now...fashions, attitudes, culture ALL.” But what do I know...I was a latch-key kid...a baby buster. Adopted to boot. No one listened to us then, few listen now.
The whole country is about Led Zeppelin on one end and Hanna Montana on the other end.
Any 'grown up' culture is a molecule thin layer squashed between those to leviathans....
I'd like to go out for a three martini lunch with a cigar, but the boomers have taken that away too: The 60' Generation in beclowning themselves have infantilized my culture.
I'm 40 and I'm the 'kid' in the office....