TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Leonard Pierce:

I’ve always hated this tendency. Even when I was young, people who looked back at the ’60s and ’70s as the pinnacle of American popular culture made my skin crawl. And the older I got, the less patience I had for the retro-minded bores of every age who bitched and moaned about how nothing was as good as it was during the years when they just happened to be in college. And on the flip side, I’m equally frustrated by people who don’t want to recognize that—at least in terms of culture—we’re in a golden age right now. Sure, there are plenty of individuals and tendencies to complain about, but doesn’t anyone recognize how great things are now?