I know. And I get it. And I’m old and wise enough to know I don’t know anything about anything.
Also, I know I’m as wistful of my youthful times as my great grandfather probably was, but the world today vs the 80s/early 90s… The Internet thing is an epoch shift. It’s crazy that our grandparents grew up without planes in the sky and we’re expected to navigate cable news, yes, I get that.
But to go from… the world… to… the world plus the globally interconnected virtual world… is fucking nuts. I had lots of screens. I wrote code on a CRT in 88 and fucked with my share of bunny ears or played Civ 1 for entire school breaks. It’s not just screens. The library of Alexandria x a million in our pockets, everyone everywhere all the times accessible to one another, constant surveillance from walking down the block to our most private digital thought, all of it capitalized and personalized to perfection to encourage obsession and consumption and spending.
I have one of the rare boomer parents, that for however crazy she is, she’s flat out said, “I understand it’s impossible to get a mortgage and get started these days. I don’t understand how kids go to college and start careers.” Vs “but we did more with less. Fuck off.”
These are actually different times. Things were less anxious and bombarding and all consuming.
I know. And I get it. And I’m old and wise enough to know I don’t know anything about anything.
Also, I know I’m as wistful of my youthful times as my great grandfather probably was, but the world today vs the 80s/early 90s… The Internet thing is an epoch shift. It’s crazy that our grandparents grew up without planes in the sky and we’re expected to navigate cable news, yes, I get that.
But to go from… the world… to… the world plus the globally interconnected virtual world… is fucking nuts. I had lots of screens. I wrote code on a CRT in 88 and fucked with my share of bunny ears or played Civ 1 for entire school breaks. It’s not just screens. The library of Alexandria x a million in our pockets, everyone everywhere all the times accessible to one another, constant surveillance from walking down the block to our most private digital thought, all of it capitalized and personalized to perfection to encourage obsession and consumption and spending.
I have one of the rare boomer parents, that for however crazy she is, she’s flat out said, “I understand it’s impossible to get a mortgage and get started these days. I don’t understand how kids go to college and start careers.” Vs “but we did more with less. Fuck off.”
These are actually different times. Things were less anxious and bombarding and all consuming.