tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post4949564645277847169..comments2024-03-28T16:54:02.105-04:00Comments on Face to Face: No one dresses up as characters made in low-crime timesagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-82275627503200028582010-11-03T16:14:24.367-04:002010-11-03T16:14:24.367-04:00See my response to that comment, or the final para...See my response to that comment, or the final paragraph in this post. It's not about kids these days -- it's about the entire culture. Even 20-somethings and 30-somethings make kabuki faces in their Facebook pictures, prefer video games over dance clubs, etc.<br /><br />Also not about "my day" vs. today. I became a teenager after the crime rate started plummeting, and was in my 20s during the past decade, so my day is certainly not long past. Just my childhood. If I were writing about how cool things were back when I was a teenager, I'd be praising the '90s, which you can tell are the times I find most repulsive.<br /><br />If I thought things were oh so much better back in the good ole days, why do you never read about how cool the mid-'30s through the late '50s were? Those are obviously some of the most boring cultural times in recent memory -- and completely unlike the combustible atmosphere of the fin-de-siecle through the Roaring Twenties.<br /><br />Then there are the differences between high and low-crime times throughout the past millennium, which I've detailed extensively, and which are just like the ones we see on a short and recent scale.<br /><br />Obviously I was not alive for the 14th C, the Elizabethan / Jacobean period, or the Romantic / Gothic period, so my preference for those cultures over Renaissance Humanism, the Age of Reason, and the Victorian era has nothing to do with nostalgia or present-vs-past etc.<br /><br />It almost all comes down to when the violence level is shooting up or plummeting down. That controls about 90% of the differences in the zeitgeist between two periods.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-11466195476457253682010-11-03T11:09:09.286-04:002010-11-03T11:09:09.286-04:00Someone previously mentioned that all this blog ha...Someone previously mentioned that all this blog has become is a tangent about how life was better in your day...which is long past. <br /><br />At first I was hesitant to agree, because I have read your blog for years now, and have really enjoyed it. These recent string of posts however have proved the commenter right. It seems as though you have turned into an old curmudgeon complaining about "those kids" and "their wussy" ideas, and how it was oh so much better back in the good ole days.<br /><br />This is not meant as a nasty comment, I just thought honesty to be the best policy. :) perhaps you could go back to posting less about the kids, and more about women, diet, etc...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com