It could be just we are all old but it seems like it. The internet has allowed us all to be "the one metalhead in the village" by linking us to other fans on the net. That means we have less of a shared culture. Perhaps that is only because we are nerds who don't interact with normies and normie culture.
Main stream culture does seem to have stalled. So many remakes of movies. So many sequels. TV also has a bunch of sequels and a few remakes. TV is another major change. Zoomers don't watch linear TV. A group of friends don't tune in to the same channel at the same time to watch the same show. They'll binge on as much as possible.
I can't comment on music because I was never into popular music.
Good observation. The very early 90s very much felt like the 80s, etc. What characterises a decade of culture rarely ends neatly on the right numerals, although I'd say the 2000s died some time around 08-09 when the internet started failing/twitter started rising. GG in 2014 was a pushback against a progressive infiltration that was already well established, & one which didn't characterise the 2000s.
The 2000s never felt much like they had an identity to me at the time and they had plenty of rancid shit going on - govts capitalising on 9/11, etc. But on reflection there was a lot of great games, consoles, music and movies and it was the golden age of piracy. Prior to smartphones and the mass normie adoption of the net, there was a lot of idealism for the power of the internet too.
The 2010s were very much a void, one that I'd characterise as a battleground created by feminist technocrats. It doesn't feel like they're fully over yet, but something in the air feels like change. I just don't know into what. Just because it's 2023 already, doesn't mean the 2020s aren't about to land.
The idea of a nation-scale shared culture is being erased. The closest you get are a handful of events deliberately pushed to the forefront of everything in an effort to fabricate an synthetic culture that benefits the people manipulating it.
It could be just we are all old but it seems like it. The internet has allowed us all to be "the one metalhead in the village" by linking us to other fans on the net. That means we have less of a shared culture. Perhaps that is only because we are nerds who don't interact with normies and normie culture.
Main stream culture does seem to have stalled. So many remakes of movies. So many sequels. TV also has a bunch of sequels and a few remakes. TV is another major change. Zoomers don't watch linear TV. A group of friends don't tune in to the same channel at the same time to watch the same show. They'll binge on as much as possible.
I can't comment on music because I was never into popular music.
The 80s ran until Smells Like Teen Spirit, the 90s were until 9/11, the 2000s ran until Trump won, and the 2010s are still going today.
The great culture war started when gamergate exposed the regressive left by outing their widespread corruption in games journalism.
Good observation. The very early 90s very much felt like the 80s, etc. What characterises a decade of culture rarely ends neatly on the right numerals, although I'd say the 2000s died some time around 08-09 when the internet started failing/twitter started rising. GG in 2014 was a pushback against a progressive infiltration that was already well established, & one which didn't characterise the 2000s.
The 2000s never felt much like they had an identity to me at the time and they had plenty of rancid shit going on - govts capitalising on 9/11, etc. But on reflection there was a lot of great games, consoles, music and movies and it was the golden age of piracy. Prior to smartphones and the mass normie adoption of the net, there was a lot of idealism for the power of the internet too.
The 2010s were very much a void, one that I'd characterise as a battleground created by feminist technocrats. It doesn't feel like they're fully over yet, but something in the air feels like change. I just don't know into what. Just because it's 2023 already, doesn't mean the 2020s aren't about to land.
I think of the 2000's as the Homestar Runner era
That's the desired outcome.
"Only the endless present in which the party is always right".
My god . . . you're right. How depressing.