the actual truth is that if you were to play a selection of late 60s psych, fusion and prog - and you could probably get as mainstream as pink floyd and have few of them really know what it is - to a group of teenagers or 20-somethings nowadays, a substantial percentage of them would think they were listening to futuristic sounds that will define music in the next century.

now, some of the music of the 60s and 70s was brilliant. sure. you'll get minimal pushback from me on that point.

but, what it really demonstrates is that we're in the midst of a period of cultural stagnation and social regression that set in with the the thatcher-reagan revolution (and perhaps much later in canada with stephen harper). obama did not reverse this, but normalize it. and, trump is set to accelerate it.

it's really surreal to see it: these digital natives that hear sixty year-old pop music and think it's futuristic and get excited by it. do they have the same dreams as their great-grandparents, when they hear it?