Starker on 23/2/2020 at 22:41
"Objective truth" would not be a phrase I'd use in context of thoughty2's videos (or "factually correct", for that matter):
[video=youtube;VfNdps0daF8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfNdps0daF8[/video]
Renzatic on 24/2/2020 at 01:01
Yup, the Google Effect is a thing, but I haven't heard of being a possible cause of dementia before. From what I've read, it doesn't do much of anything to effect your memory elsewhere, only for things you google up. It all probably comes down to the relative ease of discovery, as in the less effort you put forth learning something, the less likely you are to remember it.
demagogue on 24/2/2020 at 01:11
Now you can get textbooks and tutorials on everything to really learn them inside-out. If one can just resist being content with the quick surface answer, there's a lot more depth. I love that part of today over then and try to take advantage of it.
But it's sad to see the next generation not displaying the kind of patience for complexity we had to grow up with (if that's what's really happening), since if they had it, the information revolution would be doing a lot more good than bad. But I feel like we're on track for the bad timeline right now, as it is.
Starker on 24/2/2020 at 01:14
Or maybe you are just less likely to bother remembering information you can easily access any time.
PigLick on 24/2/2020 at 01:53
Hey Starker that video you posted was great, I hate it when people say "music of today is so much worse then whenever I was young"
In fact I would say thanks to internet, streaming etc I am constantly discovering interesting great music I would never have otherwise heard or even known about.
Starker on 24/2/2020 at 02:11
It's the cat's meow:
[video=youtube;tDK5sSwcBtM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDK5sSwcBtM[/video]
Renzatic on 24/2/2020 at 05:24
Whenever someone gets into one of these "music was better back when I was a kid" arguments, I immediate think back to the early- mid '00's, when nu-metal was king.
...then I start screaming.
Renzatic on 24/2/2020 at 05:27
This song is a poem to myself it helps me to live
In case of fire
BREAK
the glass and move on into your own
OH GOD, I DON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT IT ANYMORE. PLEASE JUST MAKE IT STOP!
Music today is a thousand and one times better than it was in the mid 2000's.
Sulphur on 24/2/2020 at 05:44
There's plenty of good music out there today. While I doubt there's much if any that reaches the apex of, say, The Who or The Beatles in their careers (and to be fair these are genre-defining benchmarks), we've got the market cornered on pushing not just the glitzy razzmatazzes and hip hop pop doo wop but also the experimental, the esoteric, the cross-pollinative genre bending post-structure post-genre its of today into the spotlight thanks to our tech infrastructure. It just requires more work than it used to - paradoxically, the fact that it's so easy now means it's also exponentially difficult to curate.
Decades ago, all you needed was a Billboard or a local radio station that occasionally let you discover something really good. But today they can't deal with the sheer volume - the sluice gates have opened, and we're in the flood, picking out the flotsam and the jetsam we want to take back home and carve fridge magnets out of.
Thirith on 24/2/2020 at 08:44
I definitely have very fond memories of the second half of the '90s and the first half of the '00s. I started studying in 1995, and for me that was the first time when everything seemed to fall into place: I was doing something I enjoyed, that stimulated me, and I found better friends than I'd ever had before. Later, when I started working at Uni, I had what I expect will end up being the best job I'd ever had, teaching and doing research and pretty much being paid to have opinions and ideas on culture. It's also when I met the woman I'm married to at this point. I had time and energy to do so many things that I loved doing.
At the same time, even if I tried to get back to that, it wouldn't be the same any more. University work has changed, but more importantly, I have changed. I'm older, I'm no longer as fit - but there's also the flip side that I have grown up in certain ways and I'm glad I have. I've been tested in ways that have changed who I am and how I live my life. I miss those days when I had a job that I loved, working with friends, but I'm also okay with where I am now. I miss much of the life I had, but if I had to live those years again, my big decisions would be the same and most likely I'd end up in the same place.
And I definitely don't feel that I've got too little music to listen to, whether old or new.