I get your point but the sun does give you cancer.

America is definitely pretty deeply invested in car-centeic living. But I don’t think it’s impossible to get out of it. There’s rising pressure to lower housing costs, traffic, and improve infrastructure quality. My city (which is about as car centric as it gets) is growing fast and most of that is with infil development. It’s going to be a slow transformation but I think it will happen. I don’t think American cities will look like European or Asian cities because they won’t evolve the same way. But they will look different to how they look now.

I like them but I get it when people don’t like them. I describe their music like an ice cream brain freeze. It’s something that’s plain and pleasurable with all it’s qualities pushed to the point of blowing out your senses. I like the grating overblown insanity but I understand it’s not for everyone.

Hip hop is pretty mainstream now but it started as counter culture. And I don’t think a sample in a song makes it similar to the sampled song. A lot of tracks that rely on samples completely create something new. Look at J Dilla who relied almost entirely on samples. His music isn’t a collection of old songs, it’s entirely new songs. I guess this thread is for boomer takes.

At least for me, I don’t hate the Beatles because they made bad music. I hate them because they sound generic. Of course, they sound generic because of their far-reaching influence but that doesn’t change my perception of them.

I think it’s simultaneously an opinion held by very old people who remember when they could just walk to the store and younger urbanists that want us to return to that. The people in the middle grew up in a car oriented society that hadn’t completely lost small businesses and been locked down by traffic. And they now have a house way out in the burbs with a disdain for the traffic of the city. Urbanism threatens their way of life now. That’s my opinion.

I think that’s a more modern opinion. Maybe the religious boomers want tight legal controls on alcohol but the youth today are more into weed than alcohol from my experience.

I tell myself and coworkers similar things when we’re stressed. I put in production lines for auto parts. Something always goes horribly wrong and delays things. People freak out and I tell them that worst case scenario is some soccer moms will have to wait a month for their upgraded ride.