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Growing Up in the 80s
80s Memories, News, Clothing and Fads
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Topic: Reasons why the 80's was the best decade ever.
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Born in 1971...Grad HS in 1989...thats me. Ya, the 80's were the best years for me, and like most thirty somethings these days...but the same is said about the 70's for the fourtysomethings, and the 60's from the fiftysomethings...ect. It wasn't neccessarily the "Stuff" we all had back then (although it is a big part of it) it was the time in our lives when we were invincable...we were in our prime. For me...things like ATARI, C=64, Pac Man, Centepede, Poison, Judas Priest, Whitesnake, Spuds Mckenzie, The Karate Kid, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, The Breakfast Club, Girls with "Big Hair" and Tight Jeans were "Totally AWESOME"- "Narley Dude" and just plain "cool". I remember sitting in front of the (well ok it was a TV) playing Atari for hours on end...and not just the 'ol 2600, but the 8 & 16 bit pc's (my 130xe still ROCKS!) so... ...we weren't that much different from the Sega/SNES kids of the 90's or the X-Box/PS2 kids today in that respect. But yes...the MUSIC was better, although I am into some of todays stuff (even some country...which says alot for this Rock/Metalhead Bass Player) although I even go back to some "Wah babalou wah bam boom" from the 50's... "Let me be free folk songs" from the60's & "Saturday Night Disco" too (70's). It's funny that when we were kids our parents said the same thing we say about todays kids...and of course we always vowed we would never grow up to be our parents...but it's inevidable. So fear not for these kids today...the ones that survive will be just like us to some degree as we are like our parents to some degree. But things are changing, as they have been since the Industrial Revolution. If you really look back through the pas 100 years or so, you can see that we as Americans have gotten smarter, faster, and more ...(hmmm, I want to say "IGNORANT" here but thats not quite right)..."Daring"...no thats not it either..."Troublesome"...nope still not quite it.......ah, yes...here it is: IRRESPONSABLE. We want everything "NOW!" or sooner, and you can see this "evolution" (I use that word loosely) since The Industrial Revolution...every decade seems to bring about more innovation, more technology, and yes more Irresponsibility. My wife & I do not have any kids (and no plans to) but I see kids every day, and there are some good, some bad...just like when we were kids...no different (except that these days they carry knives & guns instead of combs in their back pockets). So what do I get from all of this babbel?? Just a better understanding of what my parents had to deal with and maybe a slight glimmer into the crystal ball that we are definately headed in the direction we are supposed to be going. OK...enuf blab from me. P.S.- The eighties ROCKED!
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