I have been watching a new show about advertising executives in the 1960's that is surpisingly well written. Take this quote for instance:
"Kids today have no one to look up to... because they are looking up to us." - From episode 4 of the TV show Mad Men
Does every generation think that the new generation is going to be the last because they are not like them or their fathers? I wonder if we have it in us to step back and see what should and should not be a priority when we criticize a particular generation. Please feel free to discuss this amongst yourselves.
“My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” -II Corinthians 12:9
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I don't know about the cultural inquiry you've asked us to respond to, but I will say my wife and I appreciate the show a great deal--for so many reasons. The writing and acting are good. It's dark. Something ominous is always brooding during the show. It's a great commentary on how we thought of the postwar decade (and a half) as being a time of great prosperity and happiness. And it was--but the darkness of people's lives I think was swept under the rug in many ways, the irony of which is seen in the advertisments themselves: happy people buying products that make them what they want to be--happy.
I do appreciate the irony. And I do like the dark portrayal of the post war success. There is quite a lot of philosophy in the show and I love it (not the philosophy itself, mind you).
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