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This really hits upon something that struck me recently. I was reading a biography of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and it discussed how his evening tradition growing up was to play music as a family. Each person played an instrument and after dinner they’d sit together playing music. And FLW insisted on keeping up this tradition when he got old and famous.
It struck me that radio and tv have really turned us into such passive consumers. Without that entertainment families were forced to entertain themselves, they created music together, and this wasn’t seen as a strange aberration, but just something people did back then. In this day and age it’s probably an extinct way of spending time as a family
This made Me think of Diary of a Wimpy kid. There’s a joke in that book (and the movie) that Susan wants the family to be a band, and Greg is horrified by the thought of performing with his embarassing family. So that’s our cultural norm in the 21st century, that’s the story we tell about family music.
But that old tradition can be revived by parents. All they have to do is learn the instruments and teach their children. For so many families, making music together is an idle dream, but it’s not that hard to do it. We just have passive parents who don’t teach their kids this stuff.
I don’t think that everybody in e.g. worker families used to know how you play an instrument before the radio.
ok but let’s bring back casual group singing
Who knows the lyrics to W.A.P?
to an extent; there times when I don’t want to talk to people
That 2nd panel looks less like being into the radio, and more like they got into the NyQuil.
Nyquil with heroin
Opium at the time
Heroin has been around since 1897
Threaten me with a good time will you?
If you rotate the second image 90 degrees clockwise they are content to be Fentanyl.
Dude in the first image has that fentanyl lean.
Don’t even get me started. In my day, scribes had the decency to carve their work into tablets. Then, next thing you know they’re all doom scrolling through whatever schlock-filled papyrus mid-level officials decide to churn out.
With the tablets you had to know what you wanted to say and be brief about it. Now that the kids have scrolls they just write and write and write and its all slop.
And to make a tablet you had to collect enough for what you wanted to say. In my day that meant hard work for laconic prose. Now these kids grab a handful of reeds in minutes to write volumes of drivel.
We sleep, they live…
Radio killed the drawing room star?
“I heard you on the pianola back in (18)52”
Come to the Philippines, where every home has a karaoke set.
Ngl that sounds fun.
Stock photos of people coughing always look like they’re fellating the invisible man.
What year is this from? Radio must have been new.
1938
Looks like 2004 or so
Is the second an opium den? Those are pretty old.
People listening to a radio. Its a “those kids and their books/radios/tv/games/computers” statement.
It is… but I do wonder if you do miss something this way :(
When she was a child, friend’s parents said she reads too much. Why the fuck would you discourage your child from reading?!
Was her name Matilda?
What lazy bums we were.
deleted by creator
Now we are spectral
