This “then” and “now” column from Bob Lefsetz totally channels former Squire publisher Tom Leathers.
Check it:
THEN
Privacy
NOW
Everybody knows everything and despite protestations, (people) provide this information willingly, on Facebook, Instagram… We all want to be known, until we don’t.
THEN
Skirts had to cover the knee.
NOW
Young women raise their shirts to show their boobies and sext their friends. Pornography used to be underground, now all you have to do is Google it.
THEN
You went to the club to hear live music, cover bands or record company supported acts.
NOW
You go to the club to dance. Live music is a special event in a large room, it’s rarely even at weddings.
THEN
Saving the world came first, then you focused on money.
NOW
Everybody’s out for themselves, and if you don’t screw others you’re left behind, leading to a coarse society wherein the winners extricate themselves from the masses and the masses fight amongst themselves.
THEN
African-Americans protested against injustice.
NOW
African-Americans protest against injustice. Only now they’ve got cameras providing evidence of said injustice.
THEN
We believed the government was on our side.
NOW
The government has been demonized and those in Congress pay fealty to their corporate bosses.
THEN
Local newspapers had boots on the ground.
NOW
The New York Times is the only outlet with boots on the ground and provides news for the entire nation, even if it’s disseminated through other outlets. Despite this, the NYT believes it’s challenged by the online world when the truth is it’s winning more than ever.
THEN
Save classical.
NOW
Save jazz.
THEN
We were interested in what musicians had to say.
NOW
We care what techies have to say.
THEN
Move to L.A. to make it.
NOW
Move to San Francisco to make it.
THEN
Movies were a reflection of the human condition.
NOW
Movies are an alternative universe populated by superheroes, part of the dumbing down of the culture to make sure those in power are not challenged.
THEN
Media executives were overpaid.
TODAY
Media executives are overpaid.
THEN
You never bought the first iteration, it was always flawed.
NOW
It works the first time, right out of the box. If you don’t buy it now, you’re just gonna live without it for that much longer. Sure, products are improved over time, but in retrospect, don’t you wish you bought an iPod the day it was released?
THEN
Entertainment reporters saw themselves as independent arbiters in search of the truth.
NOW
Entertainment reporters are idiots in it for the access. Such that no one trusts the hype complex.
THEN
College taught you how to think.
TODAY
College prepares you for a career.
THEN
Parents prepared you for the day you would be on your own.
TODAY
No one is on their own.
THEN
The goal was to go overseas before you started a family, to see how the rest of the world lived.
TODAY
Everyone just beats their chest and says the U.S. is the greatest country in the world and there’s no reason to go anywhere else.
THEN
Science was king. We were all fascinated by the astronauts.
TODAY
Science is king when it comes to tech, but when it comes to the government it doesn’t exist.
THEN
Politicians were leaders. We looked up to them.
NOW
Politicians’ goal is to dismantle the government when they’re not trolling for cash. The public has tuned out.
THEN
We believed in facts. And got our news from the same sources.
NOW
Facts are questionable, always in flux, and we only go to news sources that reflect our beliefs.
THEN
Emotions.
NOW
Data.
THEN
What was in your mind was key.
NOW
What’s on your body is key. Fashion rules.
THEN
You were famous for something.
NOW
You can be famous for nothing.
THEN
You were out of contact weeks at a time.
NOW
You bitch if you’ve got no cell access.
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This reads like a dumbass tkc post, don’t imitate try to innovate. We only need one boob blog in Kc.
“African-Americans protest against injustice. Only now they’ve got cameras providing evidence of said injustice.”
You mean like those thousands of “Knock Out Game” videos?
“We believed in facts. And got our news from the same sources.”
More New York Times Kool-Aid please.
“The New York Times is the only outlet with boots on the ground and provides news for the entire nation, even if it’s disseminated through other outlets. Despite this, the NYT believes it’s challenged by the online world when the truth is it’s winning more than ever.”
Translation- My choice of confirmation biased, agenda driven drivel, from lickspittle shills, pretending to be reporters at the NYT, should be your choice of confirmation biased, agenda driven drivel, from lickspittle shills, pretending to be reporters.
“Politicians’ goal is to dismantle the government when they’re not trolling for cash. The public has tuned out.”
WTF are you talking about? Obama Care just arrogated 1/6th of the ENTIRE US Economy by way of subterfuge, legerdemain and illegal Post Constitutional “Pen and Phone” Penn and Teller bullsh*t lies, but, sure, the Government is shrinking. Kill your drug dealer before it is too late.
“Move to San Francisco to make it.”
No doubt. It is where all the “Beautiful People” go.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/05/21/black-lives-matter-naked-protest-san-francisco/27742833/
absolutely no comparison to tom leathers. in his best days, he’d write circles around this. i couldn’t even finish reading it. kind of like harley’s posts without the mumbling and tangents.
Then: Get union job out of high school, buy a house at age 27 and raise a family on one income.
Now: Support union bashing Republicans, wonder why children have to move back home after college.
To be fair, Then you didn’t have 2 cars, a McMansion, 3 iphones, a 50 inch tv in every room of the house, etc etc.
It’s still quite possible for a family to live on one income. The problem is that everyone wants to keep up with the Joneses.
Harry gets it. Higher education diluted the economy.
Then:
Ignorant, hate filled, opinionated blowhards were only offensive to those within earshot of their barstool.
Now:
KCC Comments section.
Funny!
Then: character mattered.
Now: charisma matters.
Hard to argue, Phaedrus
well said, sir.
What a load of false narrative driven nostalgia. We no longer all get our news from the same source, especially when the source you seem to go to is the Times. Whatever the Times may have been , back in the good ol days, now it’s on par with The Huffington Post or anything on MSNBC. Sure they’ll take a light swipe at Hillary, then run 5 fluff pieces to make it up to her. Unions now ? Greed driven leaders, already highly compensated workers who think it’s never enough. My Father got a form letter a few weeks ago from the Teamsters, pensions and benny cuts coming soon. The perpetually aggrieved Teacher and Public sector unions who produce less and less while demanding more and more. Then, the country was divided by race, religion, and politics. Now? Same ol same . Not for nothin, but I think the Author would be happier in Portland, or some other bastion of altruism, where they tsk tsk at the evil one percenters, bemoan the fascist racist police while safely ensconced in middle class suburbia, then conveniently turn their head away to cough while passing the dirty homeless guy begging on the sidewalk. Wake up and smell the patchouli Sport, it’s every man for himself and his, always has been, always will be.
Despite unions becoming just another Big Business, there has never been a company with a union which didn’t deserve it.
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
― Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle