3 Jul
2003
3 Jul
'03
6:40 a.m.
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:57:37PM -0700, Joseph Zitt wrote:
What we may be seeing here is an instance of the
fallacy of nostalgia:
sure, to reference Theodore Sturgeon, 90% of everything is crap, but 90%
of everything always *has* been crap. Most of the older stuff has just
been forgotten.
Heh, yeah. Agreed. I listend to an MTV dance music nostalgia show last
night, from a year when I remmembered it was all great. In retrospect - it
sucked.
There is a story that a british political comic, punch
(http://www.punch.co.uk) carried a letter its 1842 edition (the 2nd)
saying that punch was "not as good as it used to be", people have been
saying that ever since. It became the motto.
- Steve