| re: An elegy |
| Posted by: keikekaze 01:34 pm EST 12/19/21 |
| In reply to: re: An elegy - Chromolume 12:43 am EST 12/19/21 |
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It's true that every generation tends to believe it was born and raised in a "golden age" of something or other, to which no later era can measure up--that's an abiding given of the human condition.
It's also true that some people really were born and raised in a golden age of something or other, to which subsequent eras do not measure up by any objective standards. When these people tell you the mighty have fallen, they're right, and their memories are not being warped by nostalgia.
The 30 or 35 years immediately following World War II (and Franklin D. Roosevelt) were the United States of America's golden age of practically everything. The economy was strong, the middle class was strong and had money, everything was vastly more affordable to vastly more people than is the case now, and you could see any and every star on Broadway for full prices ranging between about five and fifteen bucks (over the course of the era). Three more words: No jukebox musicals. |
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