Monday, August 3rd, 2009.
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today …
Enjoy 2009. Savor every last day on the calendar.
Why? Because starting January 1, 2010, we will be bombarded for 10 years with an endless parade of 50 year anniversaries of everything 1960’s. My stomach hurts just thinking about it.
The Kennedys. The Beatles. Interesting rock bands. The moon landing. Vietnam. The first Super Bowl. Medicare. The Summer of Love. The Weather Underground. The Bay of Pigs. And on and on. (Also, interestingly, the last decade in which a Bush didn’t run for President.)
See: “mawkish.”
It’ll be the baby boomers’ last hurrah before they retire and realize that Bob Kerrey wasn’t kidding about Social Security. I don’t think the celebrations will be quiet little affairs.
There’ll be the three-hour network specials, the books, the Facebook groups, the on-location-for-a-week morning shows, the musical tributes. There’ll be commentary about the commemorations, and billions of blogs about both.
Plus, how might communications change over those ten years? I don’t think the trend of mind-numbing saturation will reverse itself, leaving us perhaps with cereal boxes programmed to play video tributes to Martin Luther King (brought to you by Cheerios), or pants that, when you try them on at Banana Republic, audibly suggest “a 60’s vintage t-shirt would complete this outfit.”
And to top it off, surely the decade will bring a politician who claims to have a “2020 vision for the future …”
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