There doesn't seem to be anything new and exciting going on these days.
No fads taking everyone by storm. No new technology everyone is discussing (AI is pretty meh at the moment, especially with the censorship). No new entertainment everyone has to see.
Maybe I'm out of the loop but I don't feel I am. Anyone else kinda feel this way?
There isn’t really anything happening culture wise, since it’s pretty much all been destroyed by leftists.
This. It's time to start making your own 'culture'.
That’s illegal.
lock me up then!
It doesn't even need to be, we lack any sort of distribution network
You should start making one. Or five.
Nothing "illegal" about enjoying a sunset, or getting a new hobby, or reading books.
Why do you think anyone would care about these insipid ""laws?"" you vaguely allude to?
No one gives a fuck about personal opinions, sophist. That’s not what is being discussed. Everyone cares, as the laws aren’t being violated. It’s axiomatic. Your feelings don’t matter.
Ha, all I asked was a simple question and it broke your narrative. Absolutely effortless to break your rhetoric. Yet here you are treating your own opinions as facts. Go be a nigger somewhere else.
Reply, paid shill.
Don't humiliate yourself like that. Have some self wo-SIKE, you commies have no self-worth LOL
You fail to understand the very concept of a discussion, subhuman worm. One single question broke you. Pretty good, ey?
https://xcancel.com/H2Hyperbaric/status/1982882204784148598
Thanks for continuing to stalk and harass my account with irrelevant and incorrect replies. You have confirmed that my statement is correct and that you are incapable of disproving it. You will reply to this comment because your contract of employment stipulates you will be fired if you do not do so.
lol
Thanks for conceding the argument and admitting everything I said is correct.
Nah, I'm just laughing at how desperate you were to deescalate talks of a culture free of demoralization, stagnation and DEI slop. The very possibility of it filled you with absolute terror.
https://archive.is/BsBnP
So?
No one is doing it, and that’s why.
If no one is doing it, why do you claim it's illegal by law?
If you weren’t an illiterate pajeet, you wouldn’t ask questions answered by the thread already.
I've struck dead center, heh heh.
Here's you claiming that breaking free of the fiat system is a crime worthy of indefinite incarceration in the big pharma prisons.
https://archive.is/RMkyw
Of course you need to deescalate all talks of breaking free of the fiat system and enforced corposlop culture. "It's illegal, no one's doing it!" you whine - I call bullshit, you disgusting usury-pushing shill.
Culture died during the late 90s and early 00s. Everything has been a fake and gay retread since. There have been several YouTubers and historians pointing this out. We have been in a bubble with no changes (aside from the fake, gay and demonic) for decades.
You could argue we've been living in a Lost Decade since 2008, maybe several.
Some people will soyjak-point to GDP and the stock market reaching All-Time Highs™ as proof that everything's hunky-dory, but it sure doesn't feel like it. There's no hope or optimism, only cynicism and nostalgia. It's like the Japanese with high school settings or isekai: everyone's retreating into the past and scared of the future.
The GDP is clearly bullshit. If it meant what they said it meant when the West embargoed Russia, Russia would have broken. Instead it didn't seem to have much, if any affect, on the bear. Made them more self sufficient than anything else
GDP includes gov spending, aka printing money, so it's completely irrelevant when considering actual wealth.
and they can just lie. like china does about everything
A country can have very high GDP without trading with other countries.
What room is there for hope when our race is undergoing a slow genocide via immigration and our more fulfilling social interactions come from arguing on forums with people who might not even be real?
Hope springs eternal. When your gaze is turned inwards upon the artificial world of machines, you may miss every opportunity to seize hope.
Bullshit, I'm sick of this evil optimistic world view that blames men like me for not being given the opportunities and abilities I need.
Do you understand that you are sharing a world with plenty of people who do actually believe that, and that if they did not believe that then nothing at all would be accomplished, exactly as we have been experiencing?
It is exactly that pessimistic world view which leads to children failing to develop properly.
My worldview is a product of my situation and how my entire life has gone, everything I've tried has resulted in failure and there's barely anything for me to even try in the first place.
Optimism doesn't create success, success creates optimism. I USED to be optimistic but that was beaten out of me by years of desperately trying to get a woman and watching life pass me by to the point that I'm a virgin at twice the age girls are losing theirs at and I'm legally denied the ability to even pursue those with a similar level of experience to me.
Success comes from moving in the right direction. Shutting down while you still have breath in your lungs is never the right direction.
Just wanted to hit this specific point... I'd suggest that you might instead look for someone your own age who is in an equally difficult situation, because you will actually be capable of relating to them, as they have been through the very same absolute bullshit as everyone in our generation has.
If you actually tried to form a union with someone of the age you're considering here, you would know very quickly just how badly you had fucked up, but it would be too late for you.
"Too big to fail" actually means "too big to survive," they just haven't figured it out yet. The problem was that children's development was being hamstrung by excessive, nonsensical demands, but those in power just blamed degeneracy and looked the other way.
The thing is, it doesn't even matter at all what they did. They can all go die in the forest somewhere and you're still going to have to take action to direct your own life. If you just sit around waiting for a better master to tell you what to do and how to live, there are LOTS of people who would LOVE to take the job.
Yeah, I feel like late 00s to early 10s is kinda where everything just died culture wise. Maybe a little here or there but not much.
It's the internet and lack of borders.
The internet supercharged the speed of trends to the point of irrelevance. Instead of stylistic decades, trends are forgotten in mere months. The lack of staying power and constant thirst for new content means there's no foundation for cultural development beyond the superficial.
Meanwhile, globalism and the lack of borders have created a global culture. Regional accents, slang, and local customs are nearly dead. Everyone is now part of the same global cultural monolith, stifling the creativity and quirks that used to lead to culture shifts. Needing to appeal to the globe means most media is sanitized and safe, rather than trying to capitalize on a new cultural movement.
Combine the two and you get a heavily curated "culture" with rapid shifts and the depth of a puddle.
You nailed it. Every subculture, genre, etc. started as some sort of local "scene." It had time to establish itself, find its footings, and develop before it became known more broadly.
Things which could have started broader trends are:
Yes, I do feel this is why things aren't developing also. I've noticed this issue specifically.
There just doesn't seem to be local niches of anything that develops.
Part of the issue is that it seems like no one explores anymore either because there's nothing new to find.
You used to be able to go out to some nightclub where some DJ was spinning at and it would be the only place you'd hear that music. This made it unique and that in itself was half the hook. You'd tell your friends who'd tell their friends and it would become popular but it was unique and localized then it would "explode" into something national or global.
Now, anything you'd witness in-person is already on YouTube and someone has already seen it before. This makes "exploring" the real world kind of lackluster and there's nothing local that's so unique everyone has to go and see it, they can just watch the YouTube clip.
This seems to stifle the ability of anything to really take off. It's found out and ridden through nearly immediately then everyone doesn't care anymore.
The same firewall that keeps people out will soon be used to keep people in
The Californication of the world has expanded further than expected.
Globohomo. Short for global homogenisation, also making fun of how gay it is.
I live in an area that's somewhat famous for its local flavor, especially in rural areas. If I spoke in our local accent, you'd know it immediately.
All of that has more or less died during my lifetime. Kids either speak this put on quasi-black accent that just sounds insanely fake and retarded, or they speak standard American English. Even I myself have only the faintest hint of a local accent, though I can very easily drop into stereotypical vernacular if I'm not careful.
My area is still extremely white, but it doesn't matter. They talk and act the way their feed tells them to talk and act, which is like black people.
The tech sector is overrun with leftists and H1b's, so they are going backwards. They'd already changed their entire philosophy from 'advance/innovate' to 'iterate/incremental everything is a subscription'. Culture and media are captured by corporate HR Karens. Everything made safe and homogeneous.
LLMs just scrape, aggregate and copy, they can't make anything actually new.
Evil cannot create...
What is evil?
Jews and jeets
one phenomenon of the world wide web is that the world is no longer mysterious. Before accessible Internet, few people actually experienced the world. To Americans, Japan was a land of noble samurai and ninjas. India was a spiritual mecca with rich culture. England was a land of chivalry. France was the romantic capital of the world. Germany was full of Nazis.
Then dialup gave nerds access to people across the world, then smart phones gave normies that same access. Over a few decades, everyone would learn that the world is either apartment complexes and restaurants, or shithole slums, with cultural icons roped off and curated like Disneyland.
There's nothing exciting anymore because nothing is left to the imagination.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome but worldwide and without the need to travel.
to a T
Well, I'm not sure about everyone else, but digging into understanding why things are happening this way has certainly been fascinating to me. Despite claims that everything has already been discovered, my own experience has been that the real world is infinite, and there will never be a shortage of mysteries.
Reconciling that perspective with how everyone is behaving, can open quite a few doors.
There's nothing exciting anymore but to experience the world itself.
What culture? Where? I don't see one, haven't for at least two decades.
What I see is a diluted, hideous slurry that is the essence of nothing.
"Cringe compilations" literally killed any culture we could have anymore.
Literally, you can see it in every corner how much people fear being sincere about anything because they might come across as cringe. Everything needs to be dipped in 3 layers of irony and sarcasm and subversion to just say what you actually want to be said.
This means nobody is willing to stand behind things once they get criticized, everyone is playing this game of Pig Latin to talk about things they enjoy, and we instead have a massive culture of people looking for reasons to destroy things (cancelling for the Woke, just calling it Woke for the not-Woke) until there is nothing left that passes the Purity Spiral.
Ironically, the places who aren't concerned about being cringe are ones like Facebook comment sections and that's because its the oldest or most retarded people possible who simply do not know or care about being seen as raving lunatics. They are sincere in their delusions, even if its easily disproven nonsense.
Why would a culture artificially created in a laboratory be anything other than exactly what its creators wanted? They don’t like surprises. They won’t allow for behaviors they can’t control.
Because it used to be that they were able to use the constant stream of new releases that people actually care to consume to continue warping the minds of the populace to their goal. Not many people actually gives a shit about consooming the newest product compared to how things used to be. As is people are primarily consuming propaganda that is entire decades out of date and because of that we're no longer seeing generations as uniform in thought as they once were.
Things don't need to be "surprising" or allow for uncontrolled behavior in order to reach a baseline competence, you can point to numerous examples of effectively the same story being told while pushing the same agendas and some will be bafflingly bad and others are considered great.
There is a legitimate competency crisis with regards to media creation and it is not by design and this is only compounded when you consider that we have effectively surpassed technological limitations for movies and even gaming is barely held back. We have no meaningfully new technological developments to speculate on that haven't been done to death over the past 60 years beyond an ever encroaching security state which itself is prohibitive to stories that could be told
Your pessimism blinds you from being able to make detailed assessments. I'm not even saying any of this actually changes anything significantly, just that there seems to be a bit of an inability to manufacture new cultural events and touchstones even when it would be advantageous to do so.
They stopped needing to care about the quality of their propaganda once they had conquered all media distribution platforms. When it became impossible for anyone else to make their own media, the monopoly status allowed for the collapse in the expenditure of competence.
Totally is, though. They don’t need to produce quality if they’re the only ones producing. They just need to keep others from doing it,
Funny you should mention that. I came to the same conclusion some years ago. All technology we use today was prototyped, designed, theorized, or built no later than 1970. It’s literally all derivative of just those implantations already in place.
No, my utter lack of giving a shit about continuing to write things that…
…led me to the briefest of summaries of the circumstances rather than a broad-spectrum analysis, which allowed you to claim I don’t know what I’m talking about when instead I simply don’t care to say.
Lack of desire/necessity, not inability. They created everything you know today. Even tiny, insignificant pieces of propaganda, widespread throughout culture, were created by them and are complete lies. All the way up to things that people say and do every single day, created entirely by the hoax of Hollywood. They’re perfectly capable of doing it again when they need to. They simply don’t need to.
Within the next five years, we’re going to have:
They’re going to need new scripts for those. They will write them (already have). They will film them. They will distribute them. It will be on every channel, everywhere. Everyone will comply because there won’t be any chance to physically interact outside the system.
Imagine being five years out from global martial law and claiming “they lost the ability to create new narratives even when it’s to their advantage.” Amazing.
Pretty clearly false. the distribution networks were conquered long before the collapse of competence and interest and many of the largest social pushes were aided by a constant stream of new popular media but currently we're in a state where social pushes are riding on past reverberations from 20 years ago.
Not quite because people still need to chose to consume it rather than doing anything else. As is streaming services need the iconic media of the past generations to get people in the door, and sure a market wide push for removal or modification of old content would would but it would be far less noticeable had there not been this large gap of more recent media.
Well what else do you have to do? Rambling about things nobody cares about is my main hobby at the moment.
There is absolutely a desire to and there have been notable attempts that had they been done 20 years ago would have had twice as many eyes on them. Keeping culture current just gives many more levers to pull on for large scale effect but there doesn't seem to be much left to pull on at this point leaving the smaller scale and more viewer tailored propaganda as the primary means of controlling public opinion which while more effective generally does not completely devalue the old style of "event culture" as a tool.
Unless you're using "Hollywood" as a catchall for jews involved in any kind of media rather than film and TV I'm going to disagree. Hollywood is almost always late to the punch and unimpactful to culture at this point, the sort of small mannerisms you're describing are just a result of your typical nigslop being pushed on us by social media jews rather than traditional media jews. Same race, similar industries but still distinctly different and it's the mass media side that we are pointing out as lagging behind.
That's a political event, not a cultural one. If you're talking about mass entertainment media designed to warm people up to the idea then I'd say being 5 years off without any notable successes in the last few years(in terms of embedding themselves culturally) and nothing left to reliably draw interest would need the sort of brute force push you're describing just to achieve viewership.
Not "new narratives", new cultural events and touchstones, there is no reason not to have them when the production speed and spending for mass entertainment products have no slowed down. it used to be that there was a cultural cycle where the old would fade out and be replaced by the new but now it seems like despite no shortage of the new, there seems to be no way to capture mass audiences with a single product like there used to be.
You seem to suggest that every failing of our enemies is unworthy of even humoring the possibility of just because our loss is inevitable. Why even bother to engage if your view on conversation seems to be reductionist to the point of only ever pointing out the end result rather than discussing the few note worthy things that ever happen on the journey to our deaths.
The Internet, my man.
Imagine thinking there’s a distinction.
Imagine being five years out from a new cultural event and touchstone and thinking they’re incapable of creating them literally out of thin air.
Covid.
It’s like you’re purposely not paying attention or something. Why should anyone take you seriously? Our enemies haven’t failed in centuries. Why bother commenting when you can’t defend your worldview in any capacity whatsoever with any actual information?
This is why I don’t bother “talking” anymore. It’s all just communist brainwashing or meaningless bullshit that never gets implemented in anyone’s lives.
“Ooh there was a new goyslop thingy on the way to our grave! Let’s talk about it as we sit back and watch it happen!”
I’ve even given up quoting you properly, because what the fuck is the point when you’re going to claim the ignorant nonsense you’re claiming? If you were right, why is no one doing a goddamned thing in the way you claim? It’s just not happening.
Are you arguing that before the internet there was actual competition or are you suggesting that the internet created competition briefly? Because I'd argue adoption of the internet correlated with lower quality.
Political events relate to change in policy(hard power) and the theatrics surrounding it presented as real, cultural events are widely consumed products and pushes to mold the thought of the populace(traditional soft power) sold as works of entertainment.
just because there has been a decline in the effectiveness of traditional soft power does not mean that hard power is not effective, nor does it mean that the modern soft power of a curated experience isn't more effective than the traditional methods ever were.
I'll believe it when I see it. The age of mass entertainment is dead.
Pushed via forced and basically nothing of lasting note came out at that time in the media sphere pretty shitty example.
Absolute insanity. There has never been so much as a setback in even one aspect of anything in centuries? What I'm bringing up here isn't even so much a failure as it is just a shift in technology and what can be achieved.
Not like I have anything else to do
The whole point of this thread is that there really isn't any new goyslop thing that is widely popular for people to discuss as we sitback and watch our genocide. I
They are though, what do you even think I'm claiming? Because really all I've said is that individual pieces of media aren't getting the numbers and having the effect they used to. Not much is memorable, not much is referenced positively in retrospect at anywhere near the frequency that used to happen. The only effects I'm claiming are minor things that are made irrelevant by both hard power and the modern forms of soft power.
The latter, certainly. The golden age of the Internet was a time when anyone could make a website about anything, and it was almost effortless to get and keep it hosted. The centralization of the Internet caused the total censorship of all ideological thought.
Across the spectrum, or merely with respect to the more prominently weighted/seen uses of the medium? Can you expound? I’m curious.
Ah, okay, perfect; I understand what you mean now. Total agreement, then.
How does the line go… ah, yes.
“If a man were permitted to make all the ballads he need not care who should make the laws of a nation, and we find that most of the ancient legislators thought that they could not well reform the manners of any city without the help of a lyric, and sometimes of a dramatic poet.” ~ Andrew Fletcher, Scottish parliamentarian; letter to the Marquiss of Montrose, the Earls of Rothes, Roxburg & Haddington; December 1, 1703
If you can show an instance of decentralization in the last 200 years, I’d love to see it.
But—and this is the important part—absolutely nothing is happening irrespective of this. Everyone’s still totally fine with the goyest of slop; they’re just consuming it from other sources and/or for free (at the price of the theft/sale of their personal data). There has been no cultural change whatsoever away from the consumption of visual media. The source of the media has changed; the nature of the media has not.
I get that angle but the reality went counter to what you suggest. Most of the big touchstone media products were made back when computer networking was in it's infancy and gradually have decreased in frequency since the popularization of the internet.
There was a brief period with more room for communication but that had no relevance to the mass media landscape over all and the effects of the internet wouldn't be realized in the media industry until well after things had become centralized and cultural disinterest had started to set in.
With regards to mass market film specifically and "quality" in this instance was mostly in reference to being exceptional at the time of release and memorable going forwards. Popularity, and memorability are the defining aspect of a cultural touchstone.
The correlation towards less exceptional media and the rise of the internet I would say is largely just the result of the way things worked out with regards to increasing processing power and lower price points. Ways to impress audiences with visual effects were running out at the same time personal computers were becoming an unavoidable fact of life. Increase personal computer uptake also had the effect of breeding a new form of media in social media which was able to undercut the cost of consumption making it a much harder sell to spend two hours to see something that fails to impress.
I can name a few, none that impactful or lasting which is why they are setbacks and not losses. It also wasn't just centralization being mentioned but all jewish and antiwhite agendas(which actually have a notably fewer setbacks in the last 200 years).
Regardless I'll just answer early internet as an example of brief decentralization since you brought it up at the start of this post. Honestly though I think this is going to be another case of differing definitions you seem to think a setback of the enemy means at least a small victory for us whereas I'm using it to refer to a part of the system performing below expected level as it continues to slowly but surely kill us all.
The nature of the media isn't really what's in question in this thread but rather the effect that it has on consumer culture. It used to be we had a few new goyslop flavors per year and that would lead to the ability to discuss with the general public what they thought of the latest goyslop and there's a good chance they'd not only have heard of it but had even consumed it themselves, but now there isn't much of that same sort of connection because there isn't even a fake and gay monoculture like we used to have.
He’s probably an fucking rodent looking like himself trying to doompost because he’s knows the Jews have completely lost the narrative and people are actively starting to name the Jew which causes kevching you see here
That's not even on the topic of the thread though. It's not that people are turning away from Jewish media as a whole but rather that there are no longer frequent singular pieces of media that receive widespread consumption and memorability.
Shalom goyim
Hi, jew. Do you… have something to add?
Yeah every tread you are one you are all do and gloom. I kind of hard of not to think you are some subversive type whether you are or not a Jew. You just want everyone to lay down and simply die, without trying to do anything .
Translation: “You posted truth and I couldn’t refute it and it hurt my feelings therefore it’s not true.”
No one cares, commie. Take your feelings and fuck off.
Nice libel. Thanks for proving me right every waking moment of your life.
I'd prefer it to be boring. But once you take a look at politics and what's happening outside your house you realize that were in a slow, methodical downwards spiral into total tyranny.
Go learn to grow your own food. This is the quiet before the storm.
I'm waiting for the post war creativity boom
There's a bit of a "settler in a new world" boom going on right now, but you'll need TOR to witness that.
So Tor is one thing that I've been wondering about. I know it's popular as a portal to the dark web, but are there actually interesting non-degenerate/non-criminal communities there? And if so, where would a person look if they were interested?
There's some good communities in there, yeah. The darknet's pretty much 4chan at the height of its good times, complete with the whole media's "very scary! full of haxxors!" headlines.
You'll need to compile your own links, though. There's pretty much no search engine that reaches this deep. On the bright(BADUM-TSS) side, hosting darknet pages is awful easy nowadays, not a single dollar spent for a neocities-style page.
So yeah, what kinda community are you looking for?
I'm honestly not really looking for a specific community. It's just a subject that I've fiddled with very lightly, and haven't really tried too hard because I've only ever known one semi-reasonable site to visit there (now offline, for good reason).
That's the core problem. there's no way to find out about anything. This is one of the newest sites I've heard about and I saw the link for it 10 years ago. Without search engines ability to navigate the internet without social connections is nonexistent.
The beating heart of the west still exists, it just needs to have a thick layer of scum scraped off the top. People are starving for art that uplifts the soul and praises God and it even occasionally gets made today. You just have to actively look for it, or create it yourself and expect no advertisement of it.
Probably because we're in the 'rebuilding' stage after the left destroyed most of the institutions of entertainment.
There are at least a lot of independents which thanks to AI are able to make their own stuff easily but be a while till you get organisations you can rely on to entertain you, depending on what you are after as I'm still surprised EA didn't fuck up BF6....yet.
It wasn't "the left" that destroyed those things.
Those things you talk about missing are symptoms of a centrally controlled culture. Everyone isn't going to be doing the same thing unless they're propagandized to do so.
But you don't need fads and crazes for culture to be interesting. You just need interesting people who can talk about interesting things. But nowadays people don't read and don't know much about anything that isn't related to their job, weird fetishes or obscure things only an autist would be interested in. Part of this is because technology has caused skill decay and reduce attention spans, but also a general apathy and pessimism about life and financial difficulties give people less motivation and time for such interests. Real life conversations in particular are less interesting because of reduced social interaction and cancel culture.
There's nowhere to even socialize besides forums like this
Not really, mostly because I've always only cared about niche things rather than lowest common denominator slop. I'm pretty pretentious though so it's possible I'm just blind to it.
We’re 100% crippled by nostalgia right now; absolute strangers in the country we were born & grew up in.
White middle-class Americans are no longer the sought after target audience for things anymore. They powers that be don’t want to employ us, motivate us, entertain us, inspire us, educate us, advertise to us, or build things for us.
This is what cultural stagnation looks like
It’s stale alright. It’s like some group is intentionally holding society back from progress because they’re afraid of the unintended and potentially uncontrollable impacts of having a meritocratic society, so they’re using “equity” policy to keep Whites so weak that we can’t progress society in a positive direction, where Hope for a decent future exists. What’s weird is that we aren’t just being held back on a technological level, even humor is being held back for some reason. Idk why they’d do that other than they know the fear based propaganda programs they use to manipulate the masses, especially the left, just won’t have the impact they do now if the general population is laughing and having fun more often, so they used woke bullshit and constant fear porn in media to keep the masses in a somber state of mind concerned about all sorts of things we shouldn’t be focused on.
Children aren't developing properly into capable adults at a MASSIVE level. We're being held back because people are dying a spiritual death even before they obtain self awareness.
Guess what kind of personality develops when that happens?
WELL THAT'S WHAT FUCKING HAPPENS WHEN YOU ALLOW SEXUAL FREEDOM.
How the fuck is my life meant to progress from childhood when I don't even have the life experience kids half my age do? What do I have to work for when I know that I'll probably die a genetic dead end and even if I can get a woman it will just be some fat bitch well past her best-by date who has gotten fucked by dozens of men before me?
You can work to calm your rage, instead of trying to pass it on to the next generation, making things even worse.
My rage is morally justified and those who lack it are in the wrong, not me. I seek a healthy society whereas evil faggots like yourself defend the rot that I want to cut out.
We defend the innocent, not the rot. We defend them by keeping our own rage out of their world.
Fuck off. Rage fuels violence and violence fuels change. We need more rage and anger in the world, not less. Without change there can be no innocence, innocence is destroyed before women even hit the legal market.
Innocence was destroyed on the cross, by those who nailed him to it.
Great thread, was hoping to post yesterday but forgot. Short answer: yes you can see the state of our countries reflected in our culture and it's circling the drain. Cynical, shit writing, hyper focus on diversity, lack of quality and creativity, lack of innovation, companies who push insane monetization models because consoomers are retarded.
Stuff we all know and see. An interesting dynamic though is that during this period we've also had a big focus on nostalgia, but because the past wasn't progressive enough they have to ruin it by making it look modern/diverse/gay etc. Ex) all the gays in stranger things. It's creates an even worse dynamic because it's not enough for them to ruin the present and future, they also ruin the past. So basically yes, we're fucked, yes culture is in the toilet.
Also, maybe I'm just disconnected but the media coming out of Japan seems on a big decline to me as well. Much more feminized, very derivative (isekei especially), dipping their toes in woke, etc. So as much as it's still better than the west because they haven't gone full blast on woke, this seems like an everywhere issue
I wonder if what is going on now was essentially the "dark ages" in a way. The Western Empire fell after WWII and we're living in the ruins now.
That's an interesting thought, it definitely feels that way a bit. I think there's a real argument that WWII was the end, but culturally things didn't really fall off the cliff until late 2000's. The combination of tech (smartphones, social media etc) and culture/wokeness (secularism, dei, gay shit etc) has led to a hollow shell of a culture. The post WWII order definitely played a big role in the cultural decay, then when you combine it with tech, economic decline, demographic change etc this is what you get.
Matt Walsh released a video that somewhat touches on this today btw. Focused on the release of the iphone and Obama getting in and said that time was the death of the monoculture etc. Some good points in there. I would say that the monoculture didn't totally die, it just stopped pretending to reflect what people actually wanted and strictly became a tool to push their politics. Post 2015ish the monoculture went full woke, which disillusioned and isolated people even more and made it even more irrelevant that it had become naturally with social media etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv3pbxTkhKQ
To be fair, when Rome fell I don't think things probably fell off culturally either until about the same timeline as what happened in modernity.
Yup - that’s what the communists want. Your culture destroyed so they can implant their great utopian vision.
Ya gotta understand - jazz, rock music, punk music, sci-fi, anime, video games, D&D… these things were created by rebels and visionaries. Who wanted to see, hear and play what they liked and all were (and are) belittled and attacked by the establishment which dint win because “the fun” won over.
It’s like Rippa says - we have to create what we want ourselves and not just be consumers of what the establishment feeds us.
Marxism's goal is to create a post-historical society. We don't really get innovations anymore because we have a sophisticated system dedicated to snuffing out any kind of emerging counter-culture
Pretty much. The soul-crushing depression is the only distraction from slow steady White replacement. The bread gives you diabetes, the circuses are gay, and you're likely to get stabbed outside the stadium. Worst dystopia ever.
It's because there is no one culture anymore. The internet let's us isolate into our own chosen subculture and stay there.
It doesn't even seem to do much of that these days.
Art reflects the artist.
On a macro-scale, it’s post technology boom from the 80s-00s. On a micro scale, there is a massive small-community boom in neighborly belonging. People are slowly putting down the phones and embracing hand making and talking again. Just have to find it offline.
You're old enough to recognize the stupid loop. Media comes out with an idiot with semi catchy but generic music. You suddenly realize it's pure fake drivel and that the same story arch you've watched from bands and singers for decades will happen to this guy. He will be catchy, edgy, And then lefty.
We don't have 4Chan to create something spontaneously, so all we get so the fake generic stuff.
Nothing but reminders of what I've been denied.
Our culture and future is gonna be more dark, pun intended.
Its a gray boring mass.
Hell is stagnation
I basically only watch movies from 20+ years ago. I couldn’t care less for most new movies (I just saw Oppenheimer and it was really good)
Don't you love the labubu craze?!?!?!