Saturday, February 10, 2007
This and That
From my weekend on-line reading, mostly from Newsweek:
1. All about NASA: What's Up With The Diaper...
2. Pitfalls of cult TV viewing: How To Continue Enjoying 'Lost'...
3. Great article on how our national sense of humor was changed forever, to something more irreverant, by the Baby Boom generation's upbringing.
From this last article, my quote of the week. It's about the 'monoculture of pop' in which we grew up, with very few channels and radio stations, etc, so that we all basically grew up with the same music, TV, and movie memories. That ended in the early 1990s, splintering into a thousand overlapping niches, creating a much looser national tapestry and a much smaller collective pool of shared memories...
The quote: "Mass media was its most mass," notes best-selling author P. J. O'Rourke. "It hadn't broken up into all of its microniches. We're probably the one generation on earth with the most points of reference in common."
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