Seeing "A Prairie Home Companion" has lead me to thinking about my generation mostly due to a comment from one of the characters who says basically all that will be on the radio now that the show is over is someone yelling at you or a computer playing music. It has made me realize that most of my peers do not have appreciation for most culture in our time. When a person like Paris Hilton is famous for being famous, it makes me really doubt the direction of American and Western culture. I was watching an episode of Dr. Katz with Ray Romano being impressed by fast food workers in Quebec because the workers were bilingual and fast food workers in America aren't even lingual, which is sad but true. Maybe I'm expecting too much of my contemporaries in terms of what is important to us as a generation. I saw an episode of NOW on PBS on "Who Killed the Electric Car?" (a documentary) which basically discussed that the American public in the mid-90s were not interested in owning an electric car but instead a huge SUV. The director of the movie said we really shot ourselves in the foot when we didn't truly try to develop the technology to a point where it could be more feasible and be able to use electric cars now when gas is extremely expensive.
"I killed eight gophers last year and a purebred Tennesse walking horse that was looking at me funny."-Dale Gribble
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