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Courtesy of freakytigger and indeed FreakyTrigger, apparently we have all resolved our generational difficulties and become one big happy Radio Two family since 1966. Blimes.

Arbitrary Woodstock reference WTF

Of course you can't have an innaccurate and limited poll carried out without poptimists getting involved, with our great experience in POLL SCIENCE and superior democratic methods. Err. Anyway, I'm clearly not the best mod for this task but away we go.


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It would be more thorough but I appear to be experiencing mild 'stealing wireless fail' so thought I'd just shove it out here quick.

Comments

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"Generation gap is a myth to the extent that this means that there's some chasm between OLDS and YOUNGS. Depends on whom, but I imagine more kidz like their parents music than their parents liked *their* parents' music."

I meant this to mean it's mythical NOW; the part at the end was suggesting that the Gen Gap was probably realer in many ways (in music, at least) in the 60's. But that's also because now there are much much much more significant generational gaps -- internet use, LGBT politics, other basic policy stuff. I'm guessing that there are bigger disparities between childrens' views v. parents' views now than there even were in the 60's, actually -- anecdotally speaking, I think you can find plenty of young people in the U.S. who, e.g., are generally homophobic or gay-unfriendly who still oppose anti-gay-marriage legislation, which aligns them socially with their parents (homophobia and gay-unfriendliness) but politically directly opposed to them (not wanting to write laws to that effect).

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Whereas from my second-hand understanding, generational disparities were more outward and complete in the 60's -- your social AND political bearings were a 180, which was a vocal way of doing it but, I would bet, not the norm in the way that some polling suggests it is with political issues now, in a much quieter but perhaps more pervasive way. But then I only think this because the info I have is about NOW, not about THEN. What survives mostly from THEN (from someone who was born during Reagan and lived thru Bush) is a kind of co-opting of superficial cultural moments with a severe downturn in the quality of politics and legislation in areas that made progress in the 60s.