Frank Zappa makes a STRONG point on the lack of honesty and removal of craftsmanship as values in America. Look how long ago this was. Also, Moon Unit is a pretentious "Val" girl herself. "You don't wanna know, hehe" *Hair flip*
Actually, that's not bad for VCRs that were available in 1982. A lot of old live shows like that have been lost forever. The networks/stations that produced them either never recorded them, threw the tapes away or the tapes were destroyed by fire/flood or just from being played too many times.
If there's money to be made, there's always been variety of media outlets to facilitate marketing it. Take a look the cell phone, a status symbol for Hollyweird stars/starlets years before it became fashionable elsewhere, now as common a trendy 'appliance' as the drive-thru choke and puke eatery.
@wolfganggangwolfe Well where do they come from if they're not installed? Human beings pass values from one to another, you don't just learn how to be a decent person all by yourself.
This works off the false premise that Frank Zappa accidentally created the valley girl, as opposed to simply bringing attention to the concept, which, it turns out, is actually pretty abstract. This basically amounts to the shortcomings of a brain that literally has not finished developing and the tendency of adults to associate themselves with the era of their upbringing, thereby mistakenly associating a constantly shifting culture with those aforementioned shortcomings and a perceived problem.
