That said (and I know I’m an outlier because I’ve been this way since childhood but) I don’t understand these seeming resistance to avoid the culture signifiers on periods past.
I always loved being familiar with cultural touchstones of the past (I’ve been working on putting All in the Family on our home media center, recently), especially because it creates a deeper understanding and because as you see how they influenced the ones you grew up with.
Culture is yet another way humans tell stories and how we relate with each other and I truly love that.
That’s not how TV in the 80s and 90s worked. Most of the TV we watched as kids in the 80s would have been reruns of things in syndication. Millenials born in 82 would have grown up watching reruns of Cheers for their entire childhood and likely have memories of watching even some of the later episodes live.
Uh, Cheers is GenX, not millenials. 1982-93. Not a lot of babies to 10yo watching Cheers.
I had been thinking that very thing.
That said (and I know I’m an outlier because I’ve been this way since childhood but) I don’t understand these seeming resistance to avoid the culture signifiers on periods past.
I always loved being familiar with cultural touchstones of the past (I’ve been working on putting All in the Family on our home media center, recently), especially because it creates a deeper understanding and because as you see how they influenced the ones you grew up with.
Culture is yet another way humans tell stories and how we relate with each other and I truly love that.
That’s not how TV in the 80s and 90s worked. Most of the TV we watched as kids in the 80s would have been reruns of things in syndication. Millenials born in 82 would have grown up watching reruns of Cheers for their entire childhood and likely have memories of watching even some of the later episodes live.