False nostalgia
Rant // Steve // 15th June 2006
Sandi Thom's musical death sentence "I wish I was a punk rocker (with flowers in my hair)" dredges up some sort of memories over at this BBC News Magazine article, where some LSE students are interviewed and asked for their opinions on decades they didn't actually live through. The public comments are mostly as wistful, pining for those half-remembered times, viewed through the fog of thirty years and the memory pollution of TV's "I love the 1970s".
I didn't live through the 1960s either, and was only four by the end of the 70s, but I can understand how much better it was back then. What with the always imminent threat of nuclear attack. And when our car industry was merely under constant threat of closure rather than in its death throes. And those race riots, and sus laws. And three TV channels. And the three-day week. Ah, classic.
Even the terrorists generally had the courtesy to give you a ring before blowing your house/pub up.
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