Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. -- Henry David Thoreau
This is one of those all-time great observations.
And of course by "fashions", I think he didn't just mean "fashion" as in clothes and such, but rather all the ways people follow group thinking.
Except in the last decade or so people seem to have been mixing fashions of the past, including bellbottoms, rather than coming up with anything new. I was a teenager in the 90s and I don't think there really was a style then, either, that could later be identified as the 90s the way you can with the 20s and 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s.
ReplyDeleteI religiously follow the old fashions, and laugh at the new ones. So, HA HA HA, Thoreau!
ReplyDeleteSure there was, Freddie. It's called "the Nineties' Medley"! ;-)
ReplyDeleteMichael,
You devious anarchist, you...
You know what? You're, like, my new friggin' guru, man! Where can I deliver you the swooning virgins in greek togas? (How many dozens for starters?)
The "New-And-Improved Temple of the Reformed Vintage 90's Medley" will sweep this miscreant mercantile world off the worship of Mammon's hooves faster than you can say "Nanoo-nanoo"!
A-MEN, HALLEILUJAH! Ah have seen the LIGHT, my brothers! Praise the BORG! Follow me to Saint Michael and we shall all be SAVED!
(That is, right after we complete our Holy Crusade to exterminate the Thoreauists to the last one. Naturally! There is only room for ONE Religion of Universal Love on this planet.)
New fashions bad, old fashions good!
(But some are even better than others. Oink-oink!)