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points by techteach00 8 hours ago | 0 comments

It absolutely sucks to be a millennial (me) because literally everyone I love in music and culture came of age in the 70s-90s and they're all dying. Ozzy was awful for me. But over the next decade, it's only going to get worse.

I was more of a Shatner movies Star Trek kid but I remember watching The Next Generation when it first came out and liked it. RIP to a legend.

[–] rootusrootus 8 hours ago

Huh, I would have said Star Trek TNG (and the movies, frankly) was more of a Gen X thing, if we have to pick generations. TNG started when I was 12.

[–] jjkaczor 8 hours ago

As a "Gen X" kid - basically sooo many channels had the original series on, that it was a constant background absorption.

So - when TNG began airing, I would have been about 15 - right squarely in the perfect formative timeframe - it was "ours" more so than the original series ever was.

[–] rootusrootus 6 hours ago

> it was "ours" more so than the original series ever was

100% agree. I watched all the originals too, and enjoyed them, but they absolutely felt like an earlier generation, building on a culture that did not match how I felt. As you say, TNG was all ours. <fist bump>

[–] n42 8 hours ago

I mean, I get it, but there's nothing unique to millennials about your role model generation dying off

[–] Foobar8568 8 hours ago

The 70s-90s was basically the boom of international stars, with a highly limited media ventures, so everyone with a TV would be aware of them, at least in the western world.

From 2000s, culture has been more diluted across the medias.

[–] hdgvhicv 5 hours ago

1988 was about peak tv, And TNG writers had Data claim that television would not survive much beyond 2040. Amazing how prescient that turned out to be.

[–] scottyah 8 hours ago

Just that it is mostly uniquely millennials right now... Sure every generation gets their time, but their comment is about whose time it is now

[–] techteach00 8 hours ago

I happen to think Western music and culture peaked through those 3 decades though. I'm talking more film, TV and music not literature.

So it's the passing of real talent without replacement. I think we live in a pretty dead culture now. Just my opinion of course.

[–] kakacik 8 hours ago

No its pretty bad and shallow, more money in the worse it is.

But if you dont know any better I guess its fine

[–] dualvariable 8 hours ago

TIL that GenX never watched Star Trek or listened to Ozzy...