Back in the day while playing Trivial Pursuit with a couple of recent college grads, one of the kids complained about the fairness of a question from the yellow-wedge category. The incident in question, she argued, took place before she was even born.
Yes, I told her, history is like that. The world didn’t start with you, no matter what your parents say.
Used to be you couldn’t hold a kid to anything that happened before Friday night. Most couldn’t tell you antebellum from Auntie Mame. But they’re catching up now, and with a vengeance, you might say.