THEN<\/p>\n
Privacy<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
Everybody knows everything and despite protestations, you provide this information willingly, on Facebook, Instagram… We all want to be known, until we don’t.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
Skirts had to cover the knee.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
The record company gave you a big advance and not much more.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
The record company gives you a small advance and not much more.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
The record company built your career.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
You build your career, the label just blows it up.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
You went to the club to hear live music, cover bands or record company supported acts.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
You go to the club to dance. Live music is a special event in a large room, it’s rarely even at weddings.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
Saving the world came first, then you focused on money.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
African-Americans protested against injustice.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
African-Americans protest against injustice. Only now they’ve got cameras providing evidence of said injustice.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
We believed the government was on our side.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
The government has been demonized and those in Congress pay fealty to their corporate bosses.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
You went to a friend’s house and perused their record collection.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
You go online and peruse your friend’s life via the aforementioned Facebook and Instagram. We want to know what people are doing, but not who they are.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
Local newspapers had boots on the ground.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
Save classical.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
Save jazz.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
We were interested in what musicians had to say.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
We care what techies have to say.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
Move to L.A. to make it.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
Move to San Francisco to make it.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
Movies were a reflection of the human condition.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
Media executives were overpaid.<\/p>\n
TODAY<\/p>\n
Media executives are overpaid.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
You never bought the first iteration, it was always flawed.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
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, the products are improved over time, but in retrospect, don’t you wish you bought an iPod the day it was released?<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
Entertainment reporters saw themselves as independent arbiters in search of the truth.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
Entertainment reporters are idiots in it for the access. Such that no one trusts the hype complex.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
College taught you how to think.<\/p>\n
TODAY<\/p>\n
College prepares you for a career.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
Parents prepared you for the day you would be on your own.<\/p>\n
TODAY<\/p>\n
No one is on their own.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
The goal was to go overseas before you started a family, to see how the rest of the world lived.<\/p>\n
TODAY<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
Science was king. We were all fascinated by the astronauts.<\/p>\n
TODAY<\/p>\n
Science is king when it comes to tech, but when it comes to the government it doesn’t exist.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
Politicians were leaders. We looked up to them.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
Politicians’ goal is to dismantle the government when they’re not trolling for cash. The public has tuned out.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
We believed in facts. And got our news from the same sources.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
Facts are questionable, always in flux, and we only go to news sources that reflect our beliefs.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
Emotions.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
Data.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
What was in your mind was key.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
What’s on your body is key. Fashion rules.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
You were famous for something.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
You can be famous for nothing.<\/p>\n
THEN<\/p>\n
You were out of contact weeks at a time.<\/p>\n
NOW<\/p>\n
You bitch if you’ve got no cell access.<\/p>\n
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