At 02:35 PM 6/3/01 +1200, you wrote:
>> How's about "... running down the road, trying to loosen my load,
>> I got 7 women on my mind. 4 that wanna own me, 2 that wanna
>> stone me,1 says she's a friend of mine ...". Deep, man. Catchy,
>> but deep. Do you think there really is a "major" difference today?
>> Hormones is hormones.
>
>Yes, I really do. "Takin' It Easy" (The Eagles) is an example of popular
>music that's well-engineered, well-composed, and well played. Not
>especially my style, although I have actually performed it in a covers
>band. Deceptively simple, yet a level of depth and sophistication that
>is very difficult to replicate
>

History shows that kids have "always" thought they were smarter than
their parents, that each new generation thinks that "it" has discovered
sex, that people tend to be more liberal in their early years, that
they go through a few wild years growing up [look at the american
president's daughters right now], and then those that survive into
their 30s eventually settle down and become more conservative [look
at the surge in republicanism in america as the baby boomers age].
The last part of the equation is, you eventually get old and grey
and cranky, and then you die. This is human nature.

I think all you guys arguing are unconsciously looking back at your
misspent youths, and are worried that the current kids are just
having more fun than you did ;-).
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>> I recently saw that if you took the world's "entire" population and
>> scaled it down to just 100 people, only 1 in 100 would have a college
>> education, and only 1 in 100 would have a computer. Just the same,
>> the wheels keep turning
>
>Yes they do. But how does a minority steaking ahead influence such
>"nasties" as multi-national conglomerates and globalisation ? Power
>is still largely top-down
>

Uh, you overlooked one thing. The multi-national nasties are the
1 in 100 with college educations and computers. They are the
"streakers" today. The movie "Rollerball" that was originally made
in the early 70s has been rewritten anew for this day and age, and
is scheduled to be re-released this summer. Report back concerning
multi-nat'l nasties after viewing it.

Also, if you want to read about what is really going on in all
this, take a look at book named "the Fourth Turning", by Strauss
and Howe. History really "does" tend to repeat itself on roughly an
80-year cycle. There are more conservative and liberal peaks and
valleys, separated by transition zones. The last liberal peak was
in the 60s and 70s, ~40 years ago, and we are currently in the
conservative valley [note - use of peak and valley are simply
rhetorical here] , but the "fourth turning" towards the next
cycle is just around the corner.

Technology changes, but human nature stays the same. This is the
basic premise underlying why there is such a thing as cycles
of history, and why kids rebel and always think they are smarter
than their parents.

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