defining a culture

I've been doing a lot of thinking lately. Not that I don't usually think, but when my mind and body are idle, I tend to think about increasingly random things. Music really defines us as a culture.

I mean think about it. I say the 50's, you think rock n roll. The 60's and 70's: Woodstock, hippies, psychedelia. The 80's: cheesy synth fueled power anthems. The 90's: boy bands and some actually good rap. But I think that our generation has no one definitive music persona.

But why is that? My pseudo-educational guess would have to be the internet and it's ability to provide us with a much more diverse and easily accessible range of music to listen to. Hey but I could be wrong. Maybe it's only because I live in this generation that I have a first person view into our music culture. I mean the generalities I listed above far from only what came out of those eras. I just wonder in ten, twenty years what we will be known for. God help us if it is the Katy Perry/Ke$ha/Justin Bieber era. I may have to just go weep for the future.