Glad you finally found me – even though it’s too late. You get to suffer the decline…🖕🏻
I on the other hand was fortunate enough to grow up when the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie (saw him when I was 18) Pink Floyd and Iggy Pop were releasing music NEW music which is now classified as “Classic Rock”. I was a teenager in Kansas City, Missouri during the punk rock years (I saw the Ramones, Iggy Pop, Devo, Patti Smith all at 18 oh and the Dead Kennedys when I was 19) it wasn’t easy but yeah, the music was GREAT!
What else…oh yeah – The fucking personal computer was created when I was a teenager so I enjoyed that evolving tech and was a part of it from the start. I experienced the entire digital revolution in music (albums to 8 track to cassette to cd to mp4 to steaming) to information. I was part of the first generation to have a portable cellphone you could fit in your pocket and actually own a personal computer.
What else…oh yeah – Cable TV so we had choices never before available in human history. I enjoyed SNL when the original cast while stoned and It was fucking amazing. Showtime and HBO with movies on demand for the first time ever.
What else…oh yeah – For the fucking first time in human history jet travel was affordable and I was able to travel higher in the clouds and longer distances than any other humans before me. I traveled the world and lived for extended periods several times out of the USA gaining a larger global perspective that was ever available to past humans.
So YES, I have lived at the height of human existence because of all these advances and I could not be happier to have been there for it. I am saddened by the rapid decline that we are experiencing with vermin being shipped around the world to invade but it makes me appreciate having been at the peak even more. As society is made more stupid and conformist each passing month I simply laugh knowing what was.
I feel sorry for the younger generation who will never know of the freedom that came from growing up without a screen in your face 24/7 and who actually could read books and appreciated being alone with their thoughts.
So yeah…I was a real punk! 🖕🏻
