Outstanding post.
And, to take it a step further, what in daily life has really changed in the last decade? Not a hell of a lot. Same basic styles in regards to clothing, hairstyles, what have you. Even music is either a throwback or a modification on a previous genre.
The main reason that I can't get with today's trends are that they are ALL media related. Take media and internet out of the equation, and 2014 could be 2004 for all intents and purposes. There's a general complacency and sluggish laziness in the world that makes everything just a general repackaging of what's already been.
I'm not a person that could sit and watch movies or sports for a whole day. My brain is just too active. If I sit and do nothing, I would go out of my skull. I need things to think about, things to create, things to....."do", and "do" as an active verb. And that's why I can only absorb so much of today's culture. Oh sure, I love ebay and VK and facebook, but that's pretty much the extent of the amount that I want to be plugged into the Borg collective
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I tell my wife all the time, if there was ANYthing "new wave" that didn't involve either sitting on my arse or something that's an "extreme" sport that my 40-something body couldn't survive, I'd be all over it.
But there just ain't.