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In Reply to: Re: hitting middle age, are we?...nt.. posted by mikenyc on May 05, 2002 at 12:08:24:

Hi,
this happens with every generation. As you get older, you are less easily impressed. You think you're the same, but you're not. You older, wiser(hopefully) and the adventures (and adventurers) that thrilled you as a kid no longer send the heart racing. There are always exceptions, but that's just the way it is.

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Re: ennui ennui, oh baby, now, we gotta go - mikenyc 16:26:58 05/05/02 (0)
Thanks for letting me know what's wrong with me.
As with many generalities, - tinear 15:47:38 05/05/02 (1)
your statement has many exceptions. It may be true that many of my my my generation (the same as Roger Daltry) have lost their critical faculties, but not necessarily have I.
Question Mr. Late: seen any Marlon Brandos lately? How about Elizabeth Taylors? OK, how about Lawrence Oliviers? Pacinos? De Niros?
By the way, many of the same things that floated my boat as a young man still do: women; sailboats; film, etc.
Yeah, you can say every generation disrespects the art or cultural offerings of the ones that follow, but sometimes such negativity has merit. Painting after Jackson Pollock. "Serious" music composition post-Stravinsky, Mahler. Strauss. Film, post-Kubrick, Bertollucci; Altman. Rock, post-70's (pick your poison there...). Ballet post Balanchine, Martha Stewart, Nureyev, Baryshnikov..well, you get the idea. The idea that the productivity of all generations is somehow equal is interesting, but not borne out.
- equal to whom? - late 18:02:25 05/05/02 (0)
  Hi,
  my gut would agree with you. Seriously. But each generation has it's own muse, it's own path to follow. I have a bit of envy that life has blessed them so generoulsy; and pity for them for the challenges they won't face. What a strange world we give to them. You know, I also remember my grandfather and his friends having this sort of conversation. And men of the Korean War era, and so it goes.

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