If it isn't current then I guess it doesn't exist in their minds. This frustrates me quite a bit but I never really let it get to me. I'll listen to what I like and they'll do the same, but I still don't like the concept of "that song is old so therefore we shouldn't listen to it".)
And I don't know about anyone else but does anybody have friends who think it's very uncool to like something that's old? If a song is even as old as five years my friends will just go off about how it's old and how it shouldn't be listened to.
(I've always wondered what their reaction would be like if I could take them in a time machine back to the late 70s/early 80s.
And yet you're not of the youth. You really seem to be giving people a lot more credit than they deserve. Kids are stupid. I bet you could poll at least half of kids in high school and they couldn't tell you one damn thing about Bono. Other than maybe 'he's that humanitarian guy with the sun glasses'.
You are acting as if I'm coming off with this huge bias, when in reality you just like to tell people they're wrong. Hate to break it to you, but people are ignorant. Especially today's youth. More ignorant than ever before (or so it seems).
I'll admit to being ignorant when it comes to certain things. This is not one of them. You want ignorant? Today, numerous times, I tried to spark a conversation in 3 different college classes about the Grammy's. I got an astounding 'never heard of them before' from every single student but ONE. Of 65 students! Granted, not all said something, most of them admitted to not knowing.
You come from a time where Bono was well known. Bono was cool. Whatever it was. You're biased. Kids these days have no reason to know who Bono is. But they are highly susceptible to peer pressure and to do what's 'cool'.
lol you really do like to generalise don't you!
you said "kids are stupid", which is quite the blanket statement
i never suggested you said "having kids is stupid" or that you implied that "the concept of kids are (sic) stupid"
speaking as a parent myself, i do not think kids are stupid...
Perhaps you should hang out with other people at school bro... seems like your friends are idiots.
There's plenty of decent people around these days. You just have to find them.
They only care about what's cool and what's in their interest. They're not going to give a rat's ass about Bono or U2 or anything else.
Secondly... read properly. And quit with your personal attacks. They didnt know who Arcade Fire was, or didn't comment. Where did I say I went up to 65 random people? Class 1 (15 people), class 2 (15 people) class 3 (25 people). Well, it's 55 people. Either way, it's not like people stared at me silently. We talked about the Grammy's. And when I brought up Arcade Fire it was generally answered with:
for those who chose to respond. For the quiet ones? I dunno, which is why I clarified for those who chose to answer. We talk in a group setting, before, during, and after class. Granted they weren't as ignorant (calling them the suburbs, or shaking their heads) as said picture above, most everybody claimed to not know who they were.
Fine, you dont like to tell people they're wrong. But when you disagree, you love to approach peoples posts with a smug, pompous response
