“Youth instinctively understand the present environment – the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.”
- Marshall McLuhan
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The preservation of music in records reminds one of canned food. —Theodor W. Adorno
So youth is a medium? What about middle age and old age? Wasn't 2016 the revenge of the fogeys (and the revelation that age does not bestow wisdom)?
ReplyDeletehe wrote that in the 1960s so it would have felt then that the youthquake generation were uniquely in tune with the electronic-mass-media !now! - he's talking about the glass nipple generation, people who grew up with TV from the first moment they can remember
Deletebut i quote it (and most of these quotes actually) not for its truth value but has a nice bit of prose with a rhythm to it.
still think it's true that the youngers are more attuned to the coming thing, e.g. with TikTok or whatever