Nature vs Nuture... or Nuture vs Nuture

There was an interesting Robin Williams movie a few years ago called The Final Cut. It's not the best movie in the world, but like a lot of science fiction books and movies it makes you think. In the movie Robin Williams plays a man who edits the scenes from people's lives after they die. The scenes are recorded by implants the people have. He has to edit out the bad stuff and splice together scenes that will make the family remember the best part of who the person was.

One of the things that the movie reveals is that impressive people don't always live impressive lives and the way the character edited together their lives didn't really represent how their family remembered them.

Anyway I was thinking that it would be interesting to look back on a person's life from what was going on in the world during their lifetime. For instance, what music was popular? Who were the presidents that they took an interest in? So many older people can remember where they were when Kennedy was shot, but can they remember where they were when Reagen was shot and did it matter to them? What about when John Lennon was shot? Was that important? People seemed so in tuned to the Vietnam War, but not as in tuned to the Iraq War. Would the Iraq War make the cut fifty years from now? What songs today are going to be remembered as representative of this decade?