Acting Out of you Generation

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Hello, Does anyone ever feel like they're not in their generation or try not to be. I mean I ask this because I am 17 years old and I still try to live in the 60's and 70's. I only listen to the rock and roll that my parents listened to when they were growing up( I also collect records and singles to play on my Dad's old record player), I love to watch old tv shows especially Bewitched, The Partridge Family, and the Brady Bunch which are my 3 favorites, and I have no desire for modern technology such as cell phones, I-Pods, I-Pads etc. (the computer being the only exception.) I realize that I need to live in my own generation as all of these things happened many years ago and though it has not stopped me from making friends I know that these are not normal teenage fads/behaviors. Are there others that feel like this? Or maybe people that feel opposite?

Oh goodness yes. I've always felt like I was somehow born into the wrong generation. Today's music alone is enough to make me feel this way.

I also listen to the music my parents grew up with. (See avatar and signature ) I would have loved to go to Rush concerts when the guys were young and Geddy could still hit the high notes. I'm grateful they're still putting out albums, though.

Stuff just isn't the same.

Have to go with unsure.

My generation is the 60's 70's 80's which is the greatest for music and culture.

But I would have probably preferred to live in the 40s 50s. Because I think people had a lot more freedom at that time and a better standard of living. Society has declined too much since that time, at least in the US.

Then again I could also choose the 90s 2K too. Because I'm addicted to the technology we have now. I don't know how I even survived without it.

We can romance past generations but it is not possible to relive them. There's too many inviolable assumptions to be subtracted. "The Sixties," for example, wasn't Beatles, Gilligan's Island, long hair or miniskirts. It was people from the 40's and 50's sending off young men to die in Vietnam, and draft dread is just not something that anyone from today's era can imagine. Cultural artifacts and the culture itself are not the same. The superstructure cannot explain the base.