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re: American culture seems constipated right now
Posted on 3/10/24 at 11:43 am to genuineLSUtiger
Posted on 3/10/24 at 11:43 am to genuineLSUtiger
I was recently listening to a podcast about Patty Hearst and it delved into all the counter culture groups like the SLA during the 60’s and 70’s. We think things are worse now but we are basically repeating what happened during those times. You had the Black Panthers, SLA, Nation of Islam and so many more spewing the same hate that we have today. We haven’t learned a single thing.
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Posted on 3/10/24 at 11:46 am to Miglez
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Totally agreed but what's the reason for everything stalling out? Society evolving slower in a post 9/11 world? Stronger fiscal fears after 2008? The introduction of social media?
I don’t know. I think it’s the nature of the digital revolution that has happened over the last 20 years. People and goods largely move around the world exactly the same way today as we did 20 years ago. Perhaps a lot has changed under the hood, but the passenger/driver experience in a car/plane is basically unchanged the last 20 years. Today’s kitchen, today’s buildings, bathrooms, etc are all largely the same. The microwave and refrigerator were lifestyle changing. The green egg and air fryer are niche products.
What has changed is everything moved digitally now, innovation is in software, and all of that is just less perceptible to the built environment.
And the digital world fricking sucks from a human perspective. No good joke has ever started with a priest, a rabbi and a school boy entered a chatroom
Posted on 3/10/24 at 11:50 am to StringedInstruments
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What’s sad is their memories will be isolated and lonely. I can reminisce about playing Goldeneye and drinking Surge with my closest friends. Today’s kids will remember sitting in a room by themselves playing Fortnite with a headset.
While I get your point and share your first point, someone of us did use online gaming to keep in touch with friends and make new ones. In the mid 2010s, my buddy was working a few thousand miles away and we would play GTA V to relive the glory days and keep in touch. Good times. We randomly came across these group of friends from the UK who were a little younger than us who were basically doing the same thing and we played together with them for months and we would talk about life and growing up and crazy stuff they did over there and what we would do here and talk about food and differences in culture and all kinds of shite. Probably silly to an outsider but I’ll never forget doing that even though we are nearly a decade past that.
Posted on 3/10/24 at 11:53 am to genuineLSUtiger
The same stupid stuff y’all are saying is the same stupid stuff my grandad told me back in the early 80s. My dad had to listen to it back in the mid 60s. Kids will be saying the same stupid stuff about the younger generations 25 years from now
Posted on 3/10/24 at 1:26 pm to Mushroom1968
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The same stupid stuff y’all are saying is the same stupid stuff my grandad told me back in the early 80s. My dad had to listen to it back in the mid 60s. Kids will be saying the same stupid stuff about the younger generations 25 years from now
Probably so. But the culture is much darker, more divided and much more pessimistic now.
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