"What is it that happened over the last 40 years to make us nostalgic in ways that previous generations were not?"

"What is it that happened over the last 40 years to make us nostalgic in ways that previous generations were not?"

I love that question; Steve Heyduck asked it in context of a post about the dental chair.
Go ahead and read it here,
and offer Steve some answers while there.

..I would love to hear your thoughts. What HAS happened?

We live in a unique day.

My kids are teenagers, and almost every week they or their friends are singing songs from my day:

"Kung Fu Fighting," "Play That Funky Music, White Boy,"...even "Dancing Queen' (though as this video will attest, no one can sing it, or dance to it, like Keltic Ken.

Whatsup with that?

Steve concludes:

While I am ok with a dentist office playing music from the 1970s here in 2010, wouldn’t it make sense that similarly dentist offices in the 70s would have been playing easy listening music from the 30s or 40s?

I went to dentists in the 70s. This was not happening.

What is it that happened over the last 40 years to make us nostalgic in ways that previous generations were not?

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