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Coming from somebody who is part of the most disastrous generation in history. The Baby Boomers....eyes roll.

All the generations growing up in the age of the dominance of television/popular culture have their problems. There's really very little difference across the TV generations except the subjects that each age group's partisans whine about.

Sadly, we may see this change as today's current youngsters are growing up in an aggressively evil PC secularism that the those of us in Generation TV (1950-1990) did not have to face.

A slightly different aspect of that -- Once upon a time, TV consisted of 3 networks, and everyone sort of saw the world the same way. Eventually you get some cable, you get MTV, you get the internet -- but maybe nothing much really changed. There is new music on the radio today that could have been a hit in 1965. There are songs from 1958 which are being re-done and made popular today. From my perspective, American culture has been evolving at an extraordinarily slow pace since the advent of TV.

Perhaps with some recent changes, things will break apart more rapidly -- who watches network TV now? Who watches the same show (in any manner) the same time on the same day, week after week?? Remember when Thurs night was "must see TV" with Seinfeld and Friends and a couple other shows? How gone is that era?? Culture is becoming fractured and there are lots and lots of niches.

I think it is a good thing. I'd like to see our culture start moving very fast indeed -- it's harder for the Big Boys to control the population if the Big Boys can't keep up with what "everyone" is doing, watching or thinking.