We can all be offended by fads and current trends. They are not THE direction the music goes in - just ONE. We can't look at one snapshot from the past and define the entire tradition from it - neither can we look at a snapshot taken today and guess where the tradition's going. We have to look at a time-line, not just one particular time.

Some of the folk rock (most?) from the 70's sounds very dated today - not cared for and still worn like a good wool jacket, but more like buried in the closet like that leisure suit or your go-go boots. Do you really think most of the fads of today won't go the same way?