“you’ll forever prefer the music of your late teens”
The Washington Post (gift link):
The plucky poll slingers at YouGov, who are consistently willing to use their elite-tier survey skills in service of measuring the unmeasurable, asked 2,000 adults which decade had the best and worst music, movies, economy and so forth, across 20 measures. But when we charted them, no consistent pattern emerged.
Until they charted them by generation. “Age, more than anything, determines when you think America peaked.”
The good old days when America was “great” aren’t the 1950s. They’re whatever decade you were 11, your parents knew the correct answer to any question, and you’d never heard of war crimes tribunals, microplastics or improvised explosive devices. Or when you were 15 and athletes and musicians still played hard and hadn’t sold out.
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The closest-knit communities were those in our childhood, ages 4 to 7. The happiest families, most moral society and most reliable news reporting came in our early formative years — ages 8 through 11. The best economy, as well as the best radio, television and movies, happened in our early teens — ages 12 through 15.
There are certainly marketing implications behind the research, especially for streaming music services. There is too much more to go into in detail here. See the link and enjoy your holiday.
My online friend, musician and Navy veteran Stephen Bensen, is sharing his hummingbirds with passersby this weekend. “people just walking by, see the hummingbirds and want to be a part of it. i love being able to do this.”
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