A decade is a long time

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Alex

Yes, everybody was different on the fringes but there were still only 3 TV networks so 100 million people watched the MASH conclusion ... Today's youth, though, I think will be way more fractured in the past without so many broad pop cultural reference points and that is itself very much a defining element of a new era.

Could that be why (perhaps) the defining moment of the Millenio's is Nine Eleven (apart from, ya know, the way the political, wartime, and constitutional worlds were radically affected for years afterwards)?



And fractured or not, doesn't something in pop culture have to achieve some measure of big success for most people to catch on to it? It think there will always be those things that stand out via catching on. Lady Gaga comes to mind currently. Sarah Palin. Some things break through the clutter.

Originally Posted by Alex

But it makes for an impossible theme party.

I happen to think Nine Eleven has the makings of a wonderful theme party. But I'm notorious for offensively bad taste. (Not to be confused with me being a terrorist.)