Watching America change in the 10s was heartbreaking.
Aside from the left chimping out over Trump, I think watching what they did to Star Wars was the moment I realized that everything I loved was going to be subjected to commie propaganda and destroyed. If they were willing to tank one of the biggest moneymakers in the business for ideology, it dawned on me just how powerful that ideology had become.
I've concluded that one of the more ideal American societal-cultural combinations that I can conceive of would be something like, 50% 1776, 30% 1980's, 10% 1990's, and 10% 2000's. Or something along those lines.
Maybe throw in a little bit of the old west too, but I feel like the early colonial period covers most of that pretty well.
Imagine getting to live in California with 1950s demographics, 1980s pop culture, and 1776 fuck you attitude.
Peak culture, peak economy, perfect climate, no tribe members scheming in the background. It would be heaven on earth, which is why it can never exist. The second we make a place like it, all it would take is one (likely female) person to not gatekeep hard enough and let a leftist in and the infection will spread.
Sadly, the tribe already had their hooks into things by the 80s. The Goonies is a prime example of this. Looks wholesome enough on the surface but the "good guys" are still a diverse band of plucky misfits (and the fat jew kid saves the day) while the goofy Italian mobster stereotypes are just mid-level villains and the real "bad guys" are the WASP property owners (who in the real world of 1985 had already all but sold out to aforementioned tribe).
Yup, the ever cycled nostalgia bait that Hollywood keeps rolling out without the slightest subtlety, for about the last 12 years or so.
It used to be that when they pulled some of that kind of stuff it was more about simply adding a thematic spin to something like a TV show episode. Sometimes it was a little cliche, sure, but it rarely painfully obvious marketing or pandering.
If I could lock time at January 2, 2000 I'd do it in an instant.
We were high on it being the new millennium, we'd have known Y2K was a dud, and it was before the left lost their mind with the 2000 election.
Though I'll admit when I see photos of the crazy get-ups I wore as a child in the 80s I get the feeling there was a cultural vibrancy I was a bit too young to remember now.
Remember when The Matrix came out and it said 1999 was the peak of human civilization and we all had a good laugh at how absurd that sounded? Haha... ha.
Also it wouldn’t be Christianly but I’d lock yo smack the next gen z person to use the word “colonize”. History of the freakin world is about colonization or land conquest
I loved the 80s and 90s.
Watching America change in the 10s was heartbreaking. Everything we grew up with is gone or gay. America died and nobody noticed.
And the massive decline in our hobbies and entertainment
Aside from the left chimping out over Trump, I think watching what they did to Star Wars was the moment I realized that everything I loved was going to be subjected to commie propaganda and destroyed. If they were willing to tank one of the biggest moneymakers in the business for ideology, it dawned on me just how powerful that ideology had become.
At least they didn't kill Blade Runner.
Yet.
I've concluded that one of the more ideal American societal-cultural combinations that I can conceive of would be something like, 50% 1776, 30% 1980's, 10% 1990's, and 10% 2000's. Or something along those lines.
Maybe throw in a little bit of the old west too, but I feel like the early colonial period covers most of that pretty well.
Imagine getting to live in California with 1950s demographics, 1980s pop culture, and 1776 fuck you attitude.
Peak culture, peak economy, perfect climate, no tribe members scheming in the background. It would be heaven on earth, which is why it can never exist. The second we make a place like it, all it would take is one (likely female) person to not gatekeep hard enough and let a leftist in and the infection will spread.
Sadly, the tribe already had their hooks into things by the 80s. The Goonies is a prime example of this. Looks wholesome enough on the surface but the "good guys" are still a diverse band of plucky misfits (and the fat jew kid saves the day) while the goofy Italian mobster stereotypes are just mid-level villains and the real "bad guys" are the WASP property owners (who in the real world of 1985 had already all but sold out to aforementioned tribe).
Yup, the ever cycled nostalgia bait that Hollywood keeps rolling out without the slightest subtlety, for about the last 12 years or so.
It used to be that when they pulled some of that kind of stuff it was more about simply adding a thematic spin to something like a TV show episode. Sometimes it was a little cliche, sure, but it rarely painfully obvious marketing or pandering.
If I could lock time at January 2, 2000 I'd do it in an instant.
We were high on it being the new millennium, we'd have known Y2K was a dud, and it was before the left lost their mind with the 2000 election.
Though I'll admit when I see photos of the crazy get-ups I wore as a child in the 80s I get the feeling there was a cultural vibrancy I was a bit too young to remember now.
Remember when The Matrix came out and it said 1999 was the peak of human civilization and we all had a good laugh at how absurd that sounded? Haha... ha.
Also it wouldn’t be Christianly but I’d lock yo smack the next gen z person to use the word “colonize”. History of the freakin world is about colonization or land conquest