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We colvu'de done with that insight early on.
By: | Dec 25, 2016 | Report Comment
This is the pefecrt post for me to find at this time
By: | May 22, 2016 | Report Comment
I think that both the fall of the Berlin Wall and Tiananmen Square were turning pontis in our understanding of the world. I'm 30. I was in the fourth and fifth grade when these things happened. I still remember what a big deal the cold war was, how every movie bad guy was Russian, that so many buildings in my home town bore the three inverted triangles indicating a fallout shelter, how, even in the late eighties, I was still taught to hide under my desk in case of a nuclear attack. My girlfriend, who's coming up on 26, doesn't have a clear recollection of these things. To her Soviet-style socialism, the eastern bloc, glasnost, M.A.D. and Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! are all historical relics with no more obvious connection to modern life than the Boer War and the Teapot Dome scandal. What's particularly interesting about that moment in history is that it was also at the same time that computers were becoming household objects. Anyone with experiential memories of the Soviet collapse also remembers a time before the internet, before cell phones and often before cable television. There's a very clear generational divide between people born before the about 1983 and those born after. If only because that's right when CD's first hit the market, we might call them the Analog and the Digital generations. If you have a clear memory of Germans climbing atop the Brandenberg gate, of them chipping away at the wall with hammers and bits of rebar, of whole sheets of graffiti-strewn concrete being tugged down by cranes and, more importantly, if you understood the significance of these events as they took place, you are probably of the Analog generation. If you lack these memories, then you're probably more Digital.
By: | Oct 23, 2015 | Report Comment
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