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Genki Hikari

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19. Well, if you think that's something to behold

Sun Oct 16, 2022, 07:40 AM

Oct 2022

Consider what my grandparents witnessed during their lifetime. My grandfather was born before the Wright Brothers, and my grandmother only a few months before Kitty Hawk.

They were around when most people still got around via horses, not cars.

When the world didn't have radio or movies, never mind TV. When music was live because there were no recordings...because there was no equipment to record it or play it on.

When most people didn't have running water, electricity or a phone.

My grandparents got to see the advent of cars, air travel, mass entertainment, nuclear bombs and space travel. My grandmother lived long enough to see computers become ubiquitous in our culture and cell phones were becoming reachable for people she knew.

Now tell us all about the "amazing" changes you saw, compared to what they witnessed.

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Seems like we really are living in two different realities -- [View all] Hestia Oct 2022 OP

I have far more confidence in the rising generations than I have in what my generation did. NNadir Oct 2022 #1

Thanks to DownriverDem Oct 2022 #7

I think Reagan was the symptom, not the cause. n/t. NNadir Oct 2022 #10

Older boomers thought the hippies/activists Genki Hikari Oct 2022 #18

These are some excellent observations Pluvious Oct 2022 #22

I had one that couldn't imagine a world without locking gas caps. bucolic_frolic Oct 2022 #2

And they can't read cursive handwriting nt. Pluvious Oct 2022 #23

I always laugh at these articles. I was born in 1980, and I'm a millenial. NutmegYankee Oct 2022 #3

I was born in 1958 and am in awe sometimes when I think PatrickforB Oct 2022 #4

Well, if you think that's something to behold Genki Hikari Oct 2022 #19

Well, not trying to one-up anybody at all...both sets of grandparents were born in the 19th century, PatrickforB Oct 2022 #21

That's what the quote is sort alluding to... Hestia Oct 2022 #26

Awesome list !! Adding... Pluvious Oct 2022 #24

Agent Smith - One of these lives has a future Xipe Totec Oct 2022 #5

Who needs the net orangecrush Oct 2022 #6

We never got it up on all that internet stuff speak easy Oct 2022 #11

... orangecrush Oct 2022 #12

'I knew it all, I knew every back road and every truck stop' speak easy Oct 2022 #16

Exactly! orangecrush Oct 2022 #20

Who's the author? cagefreesoylentgreen Oct 2022 #8

I think the book title is incorrect. Most likely, the OP meant... keep_left Oct 2022 #17

Sorry about that! Yes, klosterman wrote the book but harris is being referenced Hestia Oct 2022 #27

I think perhaps the OP needs to get to know more Millennials, Gen-Z, etc., NullTuples Oct 2022 #9

Millennials generally remember pre-internet just fine Sympthsical Oct 2022 #13

You say you don't want ageism or division Elessar Zappa Oct 2022 #14

How did this become about you? It's a quote from a book about the 1990s... Hestia Oct 2022 #28

I read an article on Neanderthal part of our DNA mjvpi Oct 2022 #15

That's an amazing perspective... Pluvious Oct 2022 #25