The Generational Glitch

[fureverywhere]

I was just reading a book about a father and his teenage son. The father is trying to give his boy a personal education of film appreciation. One of the movies is "A Hard Day's Night". The Dad gives him a background of The Beatles and how radically they changed the music scene. Junior is not impressed by the music or the band members. A cross between boring and stupid...the Dad is almost angry...boring and stupid? These were The frickin' BEATLES...What is wrong with you?

I laughed out loud at that chapter. Then I had to try to explain it to one of my very young co-workers...well I thought it was a hoot. I remember showing my son the video of Weather Report doing "Birdland". Wayne Shorter at his finest, Joe Zawinul was an inspiration for whole generations of musicans, Jaco Pastorius later so troubled but at his happiest and finest in this video. My son's reaction? " It reminds me of a soundtrack for a really bad 70's sitcom". WHAAAAAT? This was Weather Report, Zawinul all by himself jeez he was a master...

Grumble grumble...but I could so identify with that book.

 

[BlunderWoman]

I remember the first time I watched The Wizard of Oz and how I was pulled in to a magical world of awe. When I sat my kids down to watch it with me about 3 minutes into it they were all like " Can we watch something else now?"

 

[fureverywhere]

Yup that's it...but my oldest boy had night terrors. "The Wizard of Oz" and he'd go back to sleep, gofigya.

 

[Warrigal]

Put it down to brain plasticity. Theirs have been shaped by what they see in the present, just as ours were.
That's why it is a worry when young kids constantly view violence, porn or the two combined.