I remember the first pinch of the Great Sphincter, MTV, when They decided Huey Louis and the News were right about cocaine and "wanted a new drug" so They recycled the Monkees for a 72 hour back-to-back marathon puke-a-rama reintroducing their "closet classics" with a brand new vitality as suddenly cool again.
I think it was 1986.
It may as well been the Summer of Love all over again...
The next launching of the generational loaf was maybe ten years later when the the Great Sphincter squeezed tight only allowing a seemingly endless procession of the "Real World".
It was the squat launching and final molting (into the Real World, so to speak) of the quickly dismissed and otherwise completely useless Generation X.
It's not that Generation Y (sadly, not the first choice in desirable variable) was so interesting but that they were ripening for the pluck.
Anyway... all of the same bullshit is about to be repeated, but with a nobler goal - selling auto insurance!
Meet the new crap - same as the old crap.
TASTY!!! Mmmmmm-mmmmm-mmmm.....
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I was assuming that these ads were geared more towards the people who were hitting retirement age (because of the Ameriprise Financial commercial) encouraging them and their retained hippy mentalities that it is finally time to be responsible with their planning. Surely it's not a trend.
Jimi Hendrix wrote the most amazing assessment of the baby boomers when he wrote "I used to live in a room full of mirrors, All I could see was me..."
I am so sick of reliving their boring fucking memories and failures as if they were my own.
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