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[arethinn]

I was just sort of like, sure sure, this is funny, I guess... until I got to The Little Mermaid (I'm a little younger than that, but Home Alone wasn't a big deal for me). Then I was like, really? And it's true... 1969-1989 is less than 1989-2011.

O.o

It makes those two events seem really close together, and consequently produces a kind of cognitive dissonance effect. "Shouldn't we have progressed further by 1989?" or maybe "Shouldn't we have progressed further since 1989", so they'd seem even closer together?

...

I really don't know what to think, except DAMN YOU XKCD

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[fenm.livejournal.com]

I saw Star Wars (the one that now has the subtitle A New Hope) in the theater... nearly 35 years ago.

[arethinn]

I never saw any of the first three in the theater. I wasn't born for A New Hope and was only a tiny thing for the other two - although my own personal first recollection of a movie theater I think was The Secret of NIMH or The Last Unicorn, both of which were a year before Jedi. Hm. I guess maybe my mom didn't think I'd be interested, or that it wasn't suitable for my age.

[sinick.livejournal.com]

And then there are those of us who REMEMBER THE MOON LANDING.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

I... I need to sit down now.