  5 Complaints About Modern Life (That Are Statistically B.S.)
"Crime Is Out of Control."  The Complaint:   More brigands?  The
Reality:    Because Batman hadn't been invented yet, obviously.
In other words, it's time to box up your mantraps.  "Today's
Music Is All Derivative Trash."  The Complaint:  "Two words:
'Justin Bieber.' Turn on a classic rock station and you can
listen for hours without hearing one bad song. Now turn on a Top
40 station and try not to gouge out your ears. Today's music is
just a bland product mass-produced by corporations. Don't take
my word for it -- ask any music critic. They'll tell you the
stuff that sells today is generic garbage. Not the music back in
the day, like Zeppelin, Elvis, The Beatles, Pink Floyd ... bands
like that would never top the charts today."  The Reality:
There are two things that skew our cultural memory on things
like music.  OK, three.  First of all, you have the fact that
the crap from previous eras gets forgotten, leaving only the
great stuff behind