Muzak

There are videos on YouTube of 1960's and 70's mall muzak. What I found interesting was that the comment section was filled with yearning for what most people described as "happier and simpler times".

Of course we know that hindsight is always 20/20 and that the psyche tends to romanticize the past by conveniently removing the unpleasant. It is a way to sanitize our lived experience so we can move forward carrying less trauma. Still, I do find that it was a wonderful time and growing up in the 60's and 70's was indeed akin to basking in a simpler and less cluttered time.

Technology changed us and once the honeymoon phase of the internet passed by the early 2000's we began our descent into a world of chaotic speed where we became increasingly affected by so much noise.

Culturally we have also been thrown into such rapid change that the racists cannot keep up. Their worst instincts have been fanned by a right wing desperate to take back power. Women and minority groups have made inroads at a speed that perturbs them plus movements across borders have been described as the infidels at the gates. Never mind that historically an influx of immigration tends to rejuvenate a culture and job market.

But the white boomer (particularly the low information one) is worried and vulnerable to being worked up and so here we are.