Pop Culture Events Closer Toward Infinity

Charles Hill highlights some instances in which moments in pop culture act as perspective markers in time:

The late musicologist and audiophile Edward Tatnall Canby used to say that the length of your perceived memories is a constant, that as you get older the years get closer and closer together, like the calibrations on a VU meter as the volume — as your volume — diminishes into inaudibility.

To add cross-generational example to those that Charles provides, the time between the Beatles' breakup and John Lennon's murder was roughly equivalent to the time between Kurt Cobain's suicide and now.