Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.
I think whatever generation you're in has a nostalgia for the generations past and the generations you weren't in.
There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
Every generation has a different ways of telling a story. We had a great run in the early '90s, into the mid-'90s, and we became a little more executive-driven as we got into the 2000s.
The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.
There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.
But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us.
Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.
It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.
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