> It makes all the difference in the world. A 21st century resident who connects most strongly with 18th century art, going so far as to disdain more recent arts and entertainment, is nevertheless exposed to it daily, not only on the radio and on TV but in the very manners and demeanor of others. But an 18th century resident simply has no conception of what the arts and entertainment of times beyond his immediate future are going to be like. Jump far enough ahead in the evolution of pop culture, and the train of evolution may be impossible to bridge without sufficient exposure to the intermediate stages.

As a resident of a different century who has traveled through time from the Depression Era (My mother was a flapper.) to the 21st Centruy, I have to admit that I don't understand Punk Rock, and I seriously question that Gangstra Rap is music. But there are a lot of things I don't understand. Like how semi-conductors do what they do, how an airliner can roll to the left or right without any movement of the control surfaces on the wings, or how a pizza that used to stay in the oven for 45 minutes can now come out of that same oven, done in 15 minutes or less. And why do dinosaurs and passenger pigeons become extinct while chiggers, ticks and mosquitoes do not? What could possibly go wrong in a human mind that would make it want to blow up large numbers of people? And why do like poles on two magnets push each other away? And where does a light go, when it goes out? What happened to all that information in Einsteins brain when he died? If my larynx is exactly like Bing Crosby's, why can't I sing like he did? Why does ice cream made with real red cherries need artificial color?
When the stock market goes down, down, down, who gets all that money that people lost? Why have I never seen a mathamatical formula that explains turbulance? If you buy a new car, why does it get worth less and less for years and years and then start becoming more valuble? And why do we have have an electorial college to elect a president, but not to elect a senator? Why do blue and yellow make green?
How"just to mention a few"ard