Activism and Ridicule
Because you’re reading the Weekly, you’re old enough to feel old occasionally. Your favorite movie gets re-released on its 20th anniversary, but you remember seeing it in the theater. Or your neighbor has a baby, and you blink, and suddenly they’re doing doughnuts in the Autzen parking lot, learning to drive.
Stick with that one: teenagers. Isn’t their music terrible? That’s the big wake-up call that you’re getting old. I mean, what they listen to is just gibberish and racket. Right?
So go tell them how terrible their music is. If it doesn’t work right away, keep it up. In fact, start making fun of their music. Do bad imitations while you drip with contempt. Clearly, that will make them see reason, and they’ll start listening to good music, like your favorites, right? Because that’s the way people change their minds: they think something until someone makes fun of them for it, and then they change. Right?…