Great Washington Post nostalgia study. Adults think U.S. society was historically nicest and comfiest—most moral and close-knit, families happiest—whenever they happened to be little kids, and culture (music, movies, TV, fashion, sports, food) best whenever they were adolescents. https://wapo.st/3WXd9xS
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I was in my 40's.
And the early 1970s were awful, awful for teen nerds/geeks.
As to culture, My parents derided the idea that any music in the 70’s would be remembered fondly
Ghostbusters, Gremlins, an Indiana Jones movie, Karate Kid, Police Academy, a Star Trek, Terminator, Last Starfighter, A Christmas Story…
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1984/
And the subgroup sampling is going to have like 9% margin of errors for relevant cohorts.
These people also thought that climate change was a joke, dot com and real estate were life long investments and yellow-cake patriotism was real ....
And you know, that might just be nostalgic enough!
my son is 13 and i don't think he's ever listened to "radio" in the traditional terrestrial broadcast sense
And there are valid reasons for thinking that they are objectively worse, prioritizing homogenized commerce over art
"Oh no"
"The classic rock station has started to play the music I switched to classic rock to avoid."
It helps that I got into different genres over time, so I'm always discovering new things.
I suspect bad sample design.
When I do it, it’s obviously correct
“Society was best before I knew what was going on” and “Culture was best when I first started paying attention.” Those dorks need to grow up and adjust to reality
Best drug in the world!