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[QUOTE=&quot;bicker, post: 59721, member: 2027&quot;]The question, though is that are you objective in time.&nbsp; How adroit are you at putting yourself in the heads and hearts of people living in 2075?&nbsp; I think a lot of people blind themselves to the excellence of today because they slave themselves to their sentimental feelings about the good parts of their own past.&nbsp; There are people hailing the best and brightest of today, such as the folks who have been nominated for Academy Awards over the last few years (i.e., the list of actors I provided earlier -- which, I am shocked to realize, none of you has seemed to recognize as such) as as good or better than the actors of previous generations (those who won Academy Awards in the 1970s, 1940s, etc.)&nbsp; Those are folks clearly not slaved to sentimental feelings about the past.&nbsp; To what would you attribute their conclusion, keeping in mind that you're talking about Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, and Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk, and Meryl Streep as Sister Aloysius Beauvier in Doubt ?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="bicker, post: 59721, member: 2027"]The question, though is that are you objective in time. How adroit are you at putting yourself in the heads and hearts of people living in 2075? I think a lot of people blind themselves to the excellence of today because they slave themselves to their sentimental feelings about the good parts of their own past. There are people hailing the best and brightest [B][U]of today[/U][/B], such as the folks who have been nominated for Academy Awards over the last few years (i.e., the list of actors I provided earlier -- which, I am shocked to realize, none of you has seemed to recognize as such) as as good or better than the actors of previous generations (those who won Academy Awards in the 1970s, 1940s, etc.) Those are folks clearly not slaved to sentimental feelings about the past. To what would you attribute their conclusion, keeping in mind that you're talking about Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, and Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk, and Meryl Streep as Sister Aloysius Beauvier in Doubt ?[/QUOTE]

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