Where Did the Funk Go?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHGOO73Gxg4

Recently I was watching Pulp Fiction, and was jamming out to Jungle Boogie by Kool and The Gang. After the massive dance session, I got to thinking. What in Quentin Tarantino's good name happened to songs where you could just get down? Classic funk songs where the best. Songs where they didn't have any sort of reason other than just simply dancing without a care. Dance music today either has really gross undertones or sounds like Optimus Prime having a seizure. I miss Walk the Dinosaur and Boogie Wonderland. All of this thinking got me to a very depressing conclusion. Music today sucks. Whats worst? The songs of today will be the classic dance songs of tomorrow. Miley Cyrus will be the next Kool and the Gang. Now, this may be a bold statement, but the horrid music of today will indeed be the oldies of our children's day.
Being a fan of Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, and other "oldies"I find this fact of time to be vomit worthy. When my kids run up and say mommy, who was Justin Beiber I will reply with "A mistake of humanity." To even think of music that is played on Z102.9 is you know, actual music is an insult to people who actually wrote their own songs and didn't sing with auto tune. I feel that as an ode to these great artists of the 70s, 80s, and even 90s should be taught in a class and should be a requirement to graduate high school. Maybe I'm just angry at the world, but I seriously think that today's music is so terrible that I actually get mad when I hear it. It just isn't fair that other people my age recognize Nicki Manaj as a writer of music, but have never even heard of Chuck Berry. The most cringing thing about this, is that music could even get worst from here and music could completely become about face rather than about talent. Right now, music is near talentless, and I have zero percent doubt in that statement. Today music is all about face and presentation and not enough about talent, and quality of music. Music of yesterday should be much more recognized as an example of what music should be. We as a society should encourage talent, not bizarre showmanship.