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?
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.