Is it just me, or is the Beloit College Mindset List sort of genuinely stupid? Not the idea behind it — which is basically, “let’s make everyone over 18 feel really old,” which I guess has its place — or even some of its cultural observations, but in the overall execution, its awkward phrasings, and its general failure to be anything like actually funny.
I was much more taken aback by Mike Sterling‘s observation that Neil Gaiman’s “Dream Hunters came out ten years ago, apparently. How old does that make you feel?” Surely that couldn’t be right…but damn, it is. It’s one thing to realize the cultural artifacts of your childhood are now old; it’s quite another to realize the things that seem like they happened just yesterday actually happened a decade ago.