That's like a Harvard Divinity School tent meeting. So I was just stumbling along the Internet, minding my own business, when I came across this little blast from the past.
What amazes me is just how far we've come in the last couple decades. Naturally there was no Silent Night or Away in the Manger in the medley (those were replaced by St. Lennon's Happy Xmas (War is Over)). This was MTV, and it was still 1986. But can you imagine anything close to this today?
Just the general wholesomeness of it all. This is MTV? The network dedicated to luring our teens into adopting a life of the lowest animal denominator? MTV? This could pass for the Disney Channel. No, strike that. The Disney Channel is more controversial. Ah back in the day. Then MTV seemed cutting edge, daring, bold, in your face to the older generation - our little cultural icons were just soooooo cool! Now it looks like my grandma's tea cosy would have been more shocking.
So in decades to come will the things of today that we yell and fuss about look as tame, as safe as this video does now? Or will we pull up from the dive in time? Personally I hope we pull out of the dive. It sends chills down my spine to imagine what the world would have to be like in 20 years in order for things today to look tame.
BTW, that's Mike Nesmith popping off the beard and hat at the end. That was the punchline, since he had famously dodged joining the rest of the Monkees for their 1986 reunion tour.
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