Every generation does it to the generation that preceded them.
It’s always a disheartening experience.
The guy falls backwards a few feet, and a single tear comes to his eye.
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“Oh,” he usually only manages to respond.
It creates a sudden distance between two people and establishes clear demarcations and limits.
They can never go back to their earlier innocence.
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Everyone does it.
Perhaps it’s a little different with pop culture.
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Every generation loves annihilating the collective cultural experience of the previous one while canonizing their own.
We all need to believe that our window of time is the most important one.
Then I took him for a long boat ride and only I returned.
He’d probably still be alive if he’d seen it.
This is all part of the reason I’m looking forward to the creation of perfectAI robots.
They’ll never say something so cruel as “That was before my time.”
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