Anyone Else Tired of The "Things Were Better in My Day" Mentality!?

[GreenLanternRanger]

Honestly I'm at a point where I find it fairly annoying especially when you see it not from some grumpy old man but when you see it from someone still young overall. I think it's especially annoying coming from 80's & my fellow 90's kids. I mean yes the 80's & 90's gave us some awesome media, but so has the 21st century. I understand nostalgia is a powerful force and people get attached to the things they grow up with, and while yes I would agree certain forms of entertainment have indeed lost their way or gone way down hill that doesn't mean all media made after 2000 is bad.

Anywho I guess what i'm trying to say is every decade gives us good and bad things, and in terms of media, there has always been both gold & garbage on the airwaves, in cinema, books, comics, etc.


So what about you what do you think of all the fellow 20-40 somethings ranting and raving online about how everything was better back in their day?

[LordMikel]

I completely understand and agree. Every industry does it, everyone always seems to like to compare the best of a previous era and compare it to the worst of the current era, forgetting the dreck that was back then.

[Mister Mets]

It usually pisses me off.

Part of it is that we're comparing average material from today with the best of yesterday.

Then there are the metrics by which the world has become a better place (greater acceptance of homosexuality, decline in extreme poverty, greater access to all sorts of material.)

There are some specialized situations in which things are messier and even worse, but we have to take into account the things that have gotten better.

[ed2962]

We've almost always had that mentality. People who were young in the 30's and 40's ( the depression and WW2) will swear those were the best times in human history. Folks who grew up in the 70's and tell you what a great party it was leave out the rise in crime, drug abuse and inflation and gas shortages. Sure the economy was good in 50's America and young people had Elvis and Chuck Berry but you also had the Korean War, segregation, and fear of the bomb.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Meh! That doesn't bother me. In the minds of people who grew up in the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, etc, perhaps those were damn good times. Who am I to disagree with them?

[CJStriker]

Honest I find it pretty funny with somethings at times.

My main example was as a kid growing-up in the 1990's and hearing then how AWE Entertainment was, music, movies, shows, how we where as kids and society as a whole. It was not all around, but it was their.

Now a days we are having a Nostalgia for the 1990's, not only looking at the good parts but having fun with most all of 90's culture and entertainment like it was such good times and an identity that few kids and culture have today. Sound Familiar?!

Honestly this just shows me it is a cycle, it will always be and we will ALWAYS say the present day time is the worst and it was SO GOOD 20 years before. Honestly after going threw what I experienced growing-up, it does not or I don't see it weight on me much anymore. So really what is awful today in 20 years from now will seem CLASSIC and the Good-Old-Days, Risen-n-Repeat!

Also, This Video might put some perspective on things in a certain way:

[Orujo-man]

"In my day, all that area until the horizon was meadows with cows"

The truth does not bother me. Even it's fun and you can learn a lot from them about the lifestyles or general thinking of those times.

I prefer not to stay on the surface and ignore the whole thing "in my day everything was better" and learn what interests me.

Edit: Sorry, I misunderstood the theme. About the media is normal to some people thinking like that, mostly because things tends to be repetitive and which more age we have, less impressive are for us, or we see movies or series as a copy of another thing of the past.

[Shawn Hopkins]

I hate it. People didn't do that, back in my day.

[Kirby101]

Message boards used to be so good, not like the lousy ones today.

[Spike-X]

Yes, I am very, very tired of that.

[Attila Kiss]

Who says the 90' were better?
There was nothing good about it.
Now, let's finish this predicament with some good music.

[Carabas]

Message boards used to be so good, not like the lousy ones today.

They were proper message boards. Made of real cork. You could stick real pins in it.

[WillieMorgan]

I'm afraid I can be that way occasionally. Not about comic books and things like that but certainly about music.

Unless something recorded in the 21st century has it's roots in Classic Rock & Metal music scenes founded earlier (particularly the 1970's, unquestionably the greatest decade in the history of popular music) then I'm pretty much gonna hate it.

That makes me sound like this fella but I'm not bothered.

[MindofShadow]

It usually pisses me off.

Part of it is that we're comparing average material from today with the best of yesterday.

This drives me nuts about comic book fans.

They compare The Dark Knight Rises or Born Again or The Dark Phoenix Saga to random avengers #12. It is irritating beyond belief.

[jeanvaljean]