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Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:30 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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Literally everything you listed can either be enjoyed now or has been enhanced by....you guessed it....the internet. Part of this generation's problem with being obsessed with everything "retro" is not appreciating just how good we have it right now. The vast majority of folks in their prime in the 80s would trade places in a heartbeat. You're kidding yourself if you think otherwise. Leave the "things were better back in the day" babble to those who're already going to trash the way things are now. Those who were in their prime in the 80s? They assumed their world was the shite, while their elders pined for the 60s and 50s.
The internet can't enhance street racing or smoking pits and more freedom. Or firsts in space exploration. Are there a lot of things today that are better? Sure. But are there some things that were lost and would be better today.. absolutely, as well.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:31 pm to bamafan1001
I love how you conservative Millennials praise Reagan y'all would never elect him today he wouldn't be crazy conservative enough.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:38 pm to TbirdSpur2010
Hey T that instagram pic dammit boy 
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:42 pm to Alahunter
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The internet can't enhance street racing or smoking pits
Dangerous and deadly activities
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Are there a lot of things today that are better? Sure. But are there some things that were lost and would be better today.. absolutely, as well.
I can go with the mixed bag perspective. Up to a point.
Suck and tired of millenials with so little spine they are quick to trash their own generation. Part of what made previous generations great was the fact that they held themselves as a collective in higher esteem, their predecessors be damned.
It might be gratifying for the older set (not speaking to you specifically, just in general) to hear their heyday constantly praised, but it's pretty overblown when it comes to millenials (ironic because we're often accused of being the most self-centered).
Have some damn pride in your time, and enjoy it while it lasts. I wouldn't trade being my age right now for the world.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:43 pm to Agforlife
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Hey T that instagram pic dammit boy
Had to follow through on a promise I made to JP
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:44 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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The internet can't enhance street racing or smoking pits
Dangerous and deadly activities
Don't you be bad mouthing street racing ya hear
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:47 pm to Agforlife
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Don't you be bad mouthing street racing ya hear
I'm just thanking God y'all didn't have cell phones
***ducks***
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:47 pm to TbirdSpur2010
I dont want a wild woman, but I do like a well manicured lawn. Much prefer that to a twat that looks like it belongs on an 11 year old.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:48 pm to TbirdSpur2010
Got my 1st cell phone in 86 so 
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:54 pm to TbirdSpur2010
I personally just think that we can't enjoy a lot of what we have because our brains aren't meant to process all of the decisions we go through. You know the old trope. You have a thousand channels on TV and your whole watching experience is flipping through the channels for two hours. It's either "this sucks", or "this is OK, but out of a thousand channels, there must be something better on", so we become enraptured with the possibilities and end up ruining the experience for ourselves. The same way with songs. Nobody sits down and listens to an album anymore. We change the song after the first rendition of the chorus, because we have almost literally every song ever recorded right at our fingertips, so we can't just waste an hour of our life listening to 13 songs by the same person that we might end up hating? Hell, why even finish the song? There are no shortage of them.
The Internet is awesome. I still, to this day, after being connected to it for most of my life, think back to the first time I ever used it to play StarCraft back in the early '00s and think of how awesome it is that we get to connect to everyone simultaneously. But it's ruined me, for sure. We have no patience and no attention span. High technology is making us miserable beyond all doubt. I've had this theory for awhile, and when doing research, I find tons of evidence and studies to agree with me.
If you're a non-fiction/philosophy type, I recommend the book "The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to be Happy" by Michael Foley. Excellent read about why people in the western world find it so hard to find fulfillment and contentment in each day.
The Internet is awesome. I still, to this day, after being connected to it for most of my life, think back to the first time I ever used it to play StarCraft back in the early '00s and think of how awesome it is that we get to connect to everyone simultaneously. But it's ruined me, for sure. We have no patience and no attention span. High technology is making us miserable beyond all doubt. I've had this theory for awhile, and when doing research, I find tons of evidence and studies to agree with me.
If you're a non-fiction/philosophy type, I recommend the book "The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to be Happy" by Michael Foley. Excellent read about why people in the western world find it so hard to find fulfillment and contentment in each day.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:55 pm to bamafan1001
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m jealous. Great music, booming economy, Ronald Reagan...I spent my 20s in a decade of economic depression, SJWs, social media, Barack Obama.
At least I can say I was born in the best decade ever!
I love the times i'm living in
Move to the Czech Republic
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:56 pm to Agforlife
Zounds! #FoiledAgain
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:57 pm to bamafan1001
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Im jealous. Great music, booming economy, Ronald Reagan...I spent my 20s in a decade of economic depression, SJWs, social media, Barack Obama.
Not in Louisiana. The 80's meant Edwin Edwards, the oil bust, the deseg order which destroyed BR's school system, and basically all economic activity ceasing, causing a 20 year hiatus of basically any infrastructure improvements or economic development.
Music was good, though. Baton Rouge was a major launching point for rock tours. LSU had a few good football teams. Drinking age was 18.
As bad as the 80's were, the 90's were even worse. Crime took off, new taxes and newer venues elsewhere destroyed the local music scene, drinking age was raised to 21 destroying the bar and campus party scene, several BR neighborhoods went completely hood, Godchaux's and Bar Marche closed, Fun Fair Park closed, and LSU football entered the dark ages.
The 2000's had Katrina.
This is the first decent decade in Louisiana since the 70's (so far), but the recent oil crunch and gubernatorial elections could undo everything.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 9:05 pm to VagueMessage
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You know the old trope. You have a thousand channels on TV and your whole watching experience is flipping through the channels for two hours. It's either "this sucks", or "this is OK, but out of a thousand channels, there must be something better on", so we become enraptured with the possibilities and end up ruining the experience for ourselves. The same way with songs. Nobody sits down and listens to an album anymore. We change the song after the first rendition of the chorus, because we have almost literally every song ever recorded right at our fingertips, so we can't just waste an hour of our life listening to 13 songs by the same person that we might end up hating? Hell, why even finish the song? There are no shortage of them.
Those are tropes for a reason.
For television? People record the shows they want to watch and/or binge watch Netflix to gain the most out of their viewing experience. Or cut the cord and use slingboxes and the like to narrow down precisely the entertainment they desire as opposed to TV networks "signing off" for the night and being forced to watch a limited number of news sources. You don't have to move to your favorite team's region to watch their games.
With songs, for all the crap people talk about music not being as good as it once was (newsflash...literally every generation says this, and it's never true), we're living in the greatest information-sharing age of all time, and it's reflected in the collaboration of artists and blending of genres. You can have hit songs such as "Lean On" and "Uptown Funk" coexisting as hits despite sounding completely different. The horizons are so broadened it's insane.
People will always find ways/reasons to be unhappy. Always have, always will. Doesn't mean the advances themselves are to blame (hell, the advents of radio and television, respectively, were also thought to be harbingers of the end of human happiness and productivity once upon a time).
Our brains can process so much more than even we know we're capable of. The difficulty (as is often the case in human history), is that those of us accustomed to one way find it increasingly difficult to keep up. Younger people adapt--older folks (and I realize my time is coming to join that group) have to make a conscious effort to do the same.
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Posted on 2/2/16 at 9:05 pm to bamafan1001
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Im not a hipster, douchebag. Ive started 2 businesses, one of which failed but I picked up the pieces and started again. Ive provided jobs for other people. What exactly have you done? I wasnt starting this thread to bag on a generation but instead admire a cool decade.
Sorry if I dont pretend that the past 10 years have been sunshine and roses. They havent been.
Although I don't necessarily think you're a hipster, owning a business and providing jobs doesn't make you not a hipster.
The music of the '80s had to grow on me, but I think music is up-and-down and is more or less the same today. In fact, elements of the '80s have come back in a big way with fashion and music. The synth-y part of '80s music, that is.
Television and video games are better than ever before, and are probably only going to get better. I realize my predilection for older games is purely nostalgia, as I don't have as much time to play games anymore and feel guilty when I do. The only thing I think is truly worse are movies. There is zero originality in movies anymore, and I've long grown weary of how remake-happy we've become. The "summer blockbuster" season is basically January 1 - December 31 for shitty Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich movies. Count me out.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 9:10 pm to TbirdSpur2010
To be clear, I'm not siding with the "then was better" argument. It would take surviving an apocalypse for me to go back to the way things used to be. I'll likely always feel this way. I believe you can overcome becoming set in your ways and not keeping up with the times if you're vigilant about it. I'm just noting that I believe there is a correlation between increasing depression and decreasing attention spans with the rise of instant gratification to all of our hedonistic desires.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 9:19 pm to VagueMessage
Truthfully, I'm more towards the median when it comes to this. The past wasn't always better, and neither is the future always preferable.
This is where being vigilant in keeping up with the times, as you said, is key. If you walk back that assertion of more expedient gratification being the driving force behind depression, one can make the argument that we should live like the Amish/pre-industrial times in order to truly be happy. All due respect to the Amish, but frick that. People found ways to happily coexist with a myriad of advents throughout human history that brought about gratification more quickly--the current era is no different, just the latest iteration of the same.
What truly irks me, though, is the predilection of millenials to shite on their own generation just as quickly as their elders. That's not healthy--stand up for yourselves just like your predecessors did.
Of course, that could just be me failing to keep up with the times of current generations becoming more self-deprecating in order bridge the generational gap more easily, to bring this whole charade full circle
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I'm just noting that I believe there is a correlation between increasing depression and decreasing attention spans with the rise of instant gratification to all of our hedonistic desires.
This is where being vigilant in keeping up with the times, as you said, is key. If you walk back that assertion of more expedient gratification being the driving force behind depression, one can make the argument that we should live like the Amish/pre-industrial times in order to truly be happy. All due respect to the Amish, but frick that. People found ways to happily coexist with a myriad of advents throughout human history that brought about gratification more quickly--the current era is no different, just the latest iteration of the same.
What truly irks me, though, is the predilection of millenials to shite on their own generation just as quickly as their elders. That's not healthy--stand up for yourselves just like your predecessors did.
Of course, that could just be me failing to keep up with the times of current generations becoming more self-deprecating in order bridge the generational gap more easily, to bring this whole charade full circle
This post was edited on 2/2/16 at 9:21 pm
Posted on 2/2/16 at 9:21 pm to bamafan1001
I'm obsessed with the happy ponytail girl in this video and the song.
the guy is is cuddly and fun, too
the guy is is cuddly and fun, too
Posted on 2/2/16 at 9:30 pm to TbirdSpur2010
Having lived in the 80's,there is a real perspective that canbe given as acomparison to today.is it somewhatbiased by time and nostalgia? Absolutely. But there is also the experience of both. There were alot of things better from that period. Just like some things ate better now. Sometimes, ignorance truly is bliss and simplicity is better.
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