Thread by @gorskon

I hear all the time from Boomers & older Gen Xers about how much music today sucks. It's selective memory. First, a whole lot of music from the 1960s and '70s sucked just as bad. We just don't remember it because it's not played any more. There's lots of good music out there. 1/

https://twitter.com/pxwhittle/status/1191061490775810049

I discovered how much good music is still out there when I just started doing some exploring. Since I signed up for Apple Music, meaning there's no cost that I'm not paying already to check out new music, I've found a whole lot of fantastic music out there. 2/

Granted, huge swaths of what gets played on the radio a lot still sucks. That must be conceded. However, that's always been the case, at least for as long as I can remember. 3/

In any case, as each generation like ours approaches middle age and ages beyond that, the generations following it somehow magically seem to us lazier, more disrespectful, less intelligent, and less moral than ours was. It's been that way since at least ancient Greece. 4/

There must be something about aging that makes us forget what screwups so many of us were in our youth and that blinds us to how hard today's youth has it, because this selective amnesia has been a feature of humanity for thousands of years. 5/5