Ta-Nehisi Coates has put up a couple of interesting blog posts lately about Barack Obama's (at least somewhat) faux bashing of video game consoles and iPods, which seems for all the world to be a kind of proud old-fogeyism that we all have encountered. Of course, the exemplar of the form is Andy Rooney, who, as Ta-Nehisi notes, is right on cue with a rant about how he doesn't get young people and their music. He seems genuinely surprised that, as time goes on, pop music changes. (And even then it kind of doesn't. The overwhelming power of the Baby Boomers as a giant demographic is such that artists from the 60s and 70s can still chart by repackaging their old stuff in handy new forms to give as gifts.)
