Re: [AMC-List] stuff gets old

["Widiker, John D" <john.widiker@xxxxxxx>]

 I've felt like that since I was 15. For whatever reason the things I identify with had their hey day before I was even born. 

The best I've been able to sum it up is the following:

I'm a Steve McQueen guy in a Ben Affleck world, and I'm none too happy about it either. 

~J

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From: amc-list-bounces@xxxxxxx [mailto:amc-list-bounces@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Keleigh Hardie
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I believe that that is a recent phenomenon, historically speaking. Up until the last century, things stayed pretty much the same for the duration of a human lifetime (which was shorter then, to boot). Now, by the time you're grown up, all the technology you learned is obsolete. It seems it's now beginning to affect values and social structures as well. In a discussion about this with my wife recently I said, "if feel like the world I was raised to live in was all but over by the time I was old enough to take my place in it. Young folks today will no doubt feel that way when they reach middle age, I'd bet...

Keleigh

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Subject: [AMC-List] stuff gets old.
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Tom, upon occasion I will forward one of your posts to my brother, Frank 
called Lad.  This morning I did so with your "stuff gets old" post.  Here is 
a bit of his response to your question, "So why is it we drive these old 
things?!"

Snip ----

I can come up with many answers to Tom's rhetorical question, "So why is it 
we
drive these old things?!"  Among the many, the one I like the most:  We were
born in the wrong era.  While things of today hold a curiosity and certain
amount of "entertainment" value, the things of yesterday truly fascinate and
captivate our thoughts.  Have you ever said, "I was born a generation too 
late"?
I know I have.  As much as things of aviation grip my being, the fast-moving
jets with their fly-by-wire technology and ability to accurately acquire and
destroy targets miles away simply don't thrill me.  Give me the cockpit of a
Corsair or a Mustang or a you-name-it round engine or V-12 powered propeller
plane and I'm in my element.  I've never flown one, nor have I ever sat in 
one;
but, I know it is my element.  There has always been a feeling deep inside 
my
gut for old airplanes that spewed to the surface the first time my hands 
were placed on a control yoke.  It was unmistakable and familiar and 
somewhat eerie all at once.  As Yogi Berra would say, "déjà vu all over 
again."  I knew how to fly and had only touched the yoke.

It is that inexplicable love and familiarity with things of yesterday that 
pulls
us back to the earlier time.  Not because they're simpler, because in many 
ways
they aren't; but, because they are comfortable in our hands.

Lad

End Snip ----

My brother was an accomplished pilot holding a commercial rotary wing and 
single engine fixed wing license until an unexplained seizure grounded him 
for life.  He is due to retire from the DOD, USTRANSCOM, in less than a 
year.


AMC content:  Doh!  I'm lookin' at an SX4.....  AMC number seven is in the 
wings.

Jack

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