...or has North American culture really gone down the toilet in the past fifteen years?
The impetus for my asking this question was listening yesterday to a retrospective of number 1 songs from the past thirty years. Number 1 songs from my early salad days (say, from the time of my birth in the mid-1970s to sometime in the mid-80s) all seemed so, well, good. At the very least they were all passable. The Bee-Gees I can handle. 98 degrees? Not so much.
So it got me to wondering about a pro vs. con list: 70s-80s vs. 90s-00s.
1970s-80s had Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman; 90s-00s have Brad Pitt and ben Stiller. Advantage: 70s-80s.
1970s-80s gave us Diana Ross; 90s-00s offered Mariah Carey. Advantage: 70s-80s.
1970s-80s had Reggie Jackson; 90s-00s have Albert Pujols. Advantage: 70s-80s.
1970s-80s had Happy Days; 90s-00s have Beverly Hills 90210 or The O.C. Advantage: 70s-80s.
1970s-80s had Kurtis Blow; 90s-00s have Kanye West. Advantage: 90s-00s, begrudgingly.
1970s-80s had bumbling or deceitful Republican presidents; 90s-00s have, Wow. Advantage: 90s-00s for the double-whammy: bumbling and deceitful.
I'll wrap it up there, on a high note.
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Nostalgic? Probably. But it never hurt anyone...unless of course you mull it over from now until forever.
I'll try not to mull it over till forever.
[repeatedly] "God, I miss Redford in the 1970s..."
Not mulling, huh?
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