
Blaugust #21: There Are No New Ideas
My son hates old movies, old songs, old anything. If it’s over ten years old, he’ll refuse to have anything to do with it – with certain exceptions. I try to sneak things in, sometimes, but then he’ll catch on. “That’s Led Zeppelin. Not interested.” It’s Millennial nostalgia, really. If it happened before the nineties, it’s the previous generation, and it has nothing to do with him. I guess that’s where the modern desperation for reboots come from. The 90s kids haven’t seen it, so it doesn’t really exist. New to them! ...