With my next birthday coming soon I was thinking about stuff with aging;
* it’s weird how many things started in my life which are now almost unquestionable cultural things; Star Wars, TMNT, Transformers, Pokemon, Indiana Jones, the Jurassic Franchise. It makes me wonder what I lived through recently which will someday also seem like a trope that’s always been around.
With my next birthday coming soon I was thinking about stuff with aging;
* in some ways the 70s (and into early 80s) and 90s were golden ages. Suddenly there was all this fantastic stuff - Star Wars, D&D, Star Trek as movies, wargames miniatures, the Dark Crystal, muppets, etc etc. Or how awesome cartoons, MtG, White Wolf, and all those attempts to explore CGI were all in a world with no Cold War. AND YET, it looked crummy, definitely not like a golden age.
With my next birthday coming soon I was thinking about stuff with aging;
I assume if we ever get free of 45 stuff and looming environmental threats into a bright new world it will also look kinda dumpy.
* it’s weird how any personal feelings of mortality roll into the overall feels of gloom and doom. I definitely wouldn’t have expected this “hey, maybe I should think about death looming,” to play out *this* way with aging. Seriously this is the worst cultural dread I’ve seen since the 80s.
