[Vision2020] Take this, Kai, you Beatles hater....

[Dave]

I just attended the Phish concerts at the Gorge (Phish is an awesome 
hippy jam band, in case you didn't know, mostly a young 20's crowd).  On 
Sunday morning while I was walking around the parking/camping lot I 
counted six camps listening to the Beatles; one Dylan, one Dead, one 
Phish, one Neil Young, one Buffalo Springfield (OK, I guess that makes 
two Neil's) one Tool, and one each of many others.  But SIX Beatles, I 
was impressed.

Dave


Carl Westberg wrote:
> >From the NY Times:....
> August 12, 2009
>
>
>   Generation Gap Narrows, and Beatles Are a Bridge
>
> By SAM ROBERTS 
> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/sam_roberts/index.html?inline=nyt-per>
> Maybe it is the sweet mixture of apprehension and promise in “When I’m 
> 64,” Paul McCartney 
> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/paul_mccartney/index.html?inline=nyt-per>’s 
> ode to aging, which he wrote when he was still a teenager. Or the 
> gentle optimism of “Here Comes the Sun.”
> Whether or not the inspiration was lyrical (don’t forget “All You Need 
> Is Love,” “All Together Now” and “Your Mother Should Know”), a new 
> study argues that the Beatles 
> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/b/beatles_the/index.html?inline=nyt-org> 
> may have helped bridge today’s generation gap in America.
> They didn’t close it altogether, of course. Younger and older people 
> still disagree.
> But the raging antagonisms that defined the intergenerational divide 
> in the 1960s have eased, according to a survey by the Pew Research 
> Center 
> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/p/pew_research_center/index.html?inline=nyt-org> 
> being released on Wednesday to coincide with the 40th anniversary of 
> Woodstock 
> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/w/woodstock_music_festivals/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=Woodstock&st=cse> 
> (the music festival, which more than half of 16- to 29-year-olds could 
> not identify).
> “There’s now broad agreement across the generations about one realm of 
> American culture that had been an intense battlefield in the 1960s: 
> the music,” the survey concludes. Every age group from 16 through 64 
> listens to rock ’n’ roll more than any other format (people 65 and 
> over prefer country music). The Beatles rank in the top four among 
> every group.
> Strikingly, Pew found that the number of Americans who find major 
> differences in the viewpoints of younger and older adults is slightly 
> higher than it was 40 years ago. But Paul Taylor, the Pew center’s 
> director, said: “The generations in 2009 have found a way to disagree 
> without being disagreeable. They’re not fighting with each other.”
> While 19 percent of older adults recall that as teenagers they had 
> major disagreements with their parents, only 10 percent say they have 
> similar arguments with their own teenage or young adult children.
> The survey found that 26 percent said there were strong conflicts 
> between older and younger Americans — a far smaller share than the 39 
> percent who say those conflicts exist between blacks and whites, 47 
> percent between rich and poor and 55 percent between immigrants and 
> the native-born.
> Americans of all ages say that older adults have better moral values 
> and a better work ethic, but that younger adults are more tolerant of 
> other races. (Blacks were far more likely to see generational 
> differences in moral values, political views and respect for others.)
> “Might it be that one reason parents and teenage children aren’t 
> quarreling nearly as often now as parents and teenagers did a 
> generation ago is that, when push comes to shove, they can always 
> chill out together over a Beatles tune?” the survey asks. “As we 
> researchers like to say, Needs further study.”
> Mr. Taylor added a footnote: “It warmed my heart when I walked in on 
> my youngest when she was a teenager — she’s now 28 — and in her room 
> was a poster of the Beatles.”
>
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