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But I'm not sure there's any

artappraiser — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:01:59 +0000

In reply to Ah, like Zappa's "when your

But I'm not sure there's any order to it - no liner notes, no attachment to albums, no specific genres - 6 billion songs out there, let's listen to 'em all... on random play?

Lol! You got it, that's what I see too. Now imagine trying to figure out what's going to happen with the art market....we oldsters in the field see this: connoisseurship? out the window! who cares which does imply a rejection: our knowledge and experience is obsolete, useless...

Ah, like Zappa's "when your

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:19:39 +0000

In reply to Well I would say it's all in

Ah, like Zappa's "when your children find out how lame you are, they'll kill you in your sleep". Always good for some wide-eyed pondering of the future possibility.

I'm observing an early 70's/late 60's acquisition stage right now - but it's a bit different because it's 1 of the areas where we actually bond - I'm ubertolerant & approving of whatever music - careful not to stamp any disapproving tone to it, but there's an obvious subtle point when a pick's a homerun (Franz Ferdinand, for example), whereas I've been through too many music phases where we liked music *because* it was kitsch, or so awful it was good, or other contrary moods.

But I'm not sure there's any order to it - no liner notes, no attachment to albums, no specific genres - 6 billion songs out there, let's listen to 'em all... on random play?

Well I would say it's all in

artappraiser — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:27:48 +0000

In reply to Is "matcher" the new term for

Well I would say it's all in how you want to label "it". Certainly if you haven't seen any complaints by older generations that millenials are "slackers", you've been living under a rock.

Your reference to Rev. Dobbs just reminds me of recently learning about how current pop favorite Lana del Ray has all this 50's and early 60's white trash stuff in her videos, like beat up pickup trucks, but then they are floating around the heavens like a spaceship....no chronology, nope, chronology is out, take the stuff you like and mix it all up. Is like one millenial college student said to me "what's wrong with Santana? I like Santana". Another one said "oh, the Stones, they are awesome." Like as if I would say in 1968 "what's wrong with Lawrence Welk?" They don't even know they are supposed to hate their parents....

Is "matcher" the new term for

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 09:41:27 +0000

In reply to Of course the mention of a

Is "matcher" the new term for "slacker"? See Rev. JR "Bob" Dobbs & the Church of the Subgenius...

Of course the mention of a

artappraiser — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 08:59:15 +0000

In reply to Americans Stop Movin

Of course the mention of a comment by me caught my eye and then I read the article and I went: you've got to be shitting me, this is the opposite of what I was reading last time I kept up with socioeconomic stuff (which was probably too long ago), it was always: Americans are more and more on the move for jobs.

So I look at: who wrote this thing? And I see it's Tyler Cowen. Who I remember as a libertarian economist that Emma and I liked to read at his Marginal Revolution blog, because he seemed to take fresh outside-the-box approaches to everything. And then I see he's director of the Mercatus Center at Mason University where it seems a lot of young folks are studying socioeconomic stuff, for want of a better word. And I check his Wikipedia entry. THEN I see that the NYTimes has hired him as a regular columnist and I immediately think of my comment and Maiello's comment over here in reply to oceankat about in addition to moderate Republicans, what op ed columnists are popular with millenials?

And then it was: doh! The answer is: new age libertarians.

So I type into Google "tyler cowen popular with millenials" and the first item up was this:

Millennials have figured out the secret to thriving in the modern age

By Gus Lubin @ Business Insider, Feb. 25

Can millennials save the world?

Millennials aren’t lazy, says economist Tyler Cowen, they’re just better adapted to thriving in the modern age.

Cowen in "The Complacent Class" argues that the modern world is good for people who are motivated by strong personal interests, whether record collecting, hiking, cooking, or obsessing with "Game of Thrones." These people, called matchers or enthusiasts, are "not trying to come out ahead of everyone else; rather, they seek to have some of their niche preferences fulfilled for the sake of their own internally directed happiness." And they're finding it easier than ever thanks to technological and social progress.

The modern world isn't so good, meanwhile, for people who are motivated by beating others, Cowen says. These people, called strivers, are suffering in an age of unprecedented global competition, which makes it harder to excel, and discouraged by global perspective, which makes it harder for them to feel like they’re on top.

In short, "matchers gain, strivers lose," Cowen writes. And no one appreciates this philosophy more than millennials [.....]