So with the league all but over, let's switch to another subject - Jeffrey Epstein?

[Peter]

You know when we were discussing music we listened to at 15 and I linked that C64 8-bit music and you said that explains a lot.

Well, that explains a lot.

Yes, it does. Would be odd if it didn't

The enduring legacy of the 60s is the dominance of youth culture.

[redgunamo]

My parents were hippies. They raised me.

I rest my case

The mark of good parenting is that it produces good parents

[redgunamo]

Yes, it does. Would be odd if it didn't

The enduring legacy of the 60s is the dominance of youth culture.

Yeah, but everyone knows youths/young people are stupid

[Peter]

The mark of good parenting is that it produces good parents

That's just moving the goalposts...

[Peter]

Yeah, but everyone knows youths/young people are stupid

Youths don't.

[redgunamo]

Youths don't.

Well, quite. Just shows how stupid they are

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

Yes, it does. Would be odd if it didn't

The enduring legacy of the 60s is the dominance of youth culture.

Exactly the point I was making.

That and the fact that it was the continuation, the apogee in fact, of Romanticism.

It was the first time working class yoof created the dominant culture - Romanticism was originally bourgeois lit/art etc.

It was only with the '60s, after 130+ years, that Romanticism could be dominated by the young working class in the West.

[redgunamo]

That's just moving the goalposts...

lol. Message reprted to Cato the Elder.

[Peter]

Well, quite. Just shows how stupid they are

Not stupid. Innocent. Still asking questions of the world. Isn't that the source of all great art?

People like us, who already know everything, have difficulty getting inspired.

[Peter]

Exactly the point I was making.

That and the fact that it was the continuation, the apogee in fact, of Romanticism.

It was the first time working class yoof created the dominant culture - Romanticism was originally bourgeois lit/art etc.

It was only with the '60s, after 130+ years, that Romanticism could be dominated by the young working class in the West.

Yes. Allowing bands and artists to write their own songs was the beginning of the end.