I saw a community theater musical the other day... the million dollar quartet, a fun and lite little reminiscence about the beginnings of rock n roll, with Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jonny Cash, and the head of Sun Records. It glossed right over the racism and sexism that were a huge part of that culture, and made plenty of misogynistic bawdy jokes that would never ever fly in todays society, even if they were harmless in the context they were presented (yes Jerry Lee Lewis was a cringy perverted jerk). If any popular male act now, thought that stuff was harmless fun, they'd "never work in this town again".

The audience was mostly people who actually remembered those days, people much older than i, and those people bought tickets so they could enjoy the memories they liked, not the ones they didn't. So no big surprise there. This is how capitalism works. You give the audience what they want. And lots of people enjoy forgetting about reality.

It reminds me of the same dichotomy here on agnostic, except here it's much more about willful ignorance, for at least some members. For sure there's an age factor, though I don't think it's conclusive.. There are plenty of folks here, much older than I, whom are well aware that the world that they'd like to have lived in, never existed then and certainly doesn't exist now. But there are those who aren't. The latest round of #metoo debates and appropriate behavior vs opinions vs site rules, really underlines how out of touch the generations are, with each other (or at least, can be). But not making the effort to understand your role in maintaining that ignorance, is not ok.