When we look back in time at the 2000-2019 era, wtf will we even think?
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Date: December 14th, 2019 12:05 PM Author: Yellow Foreskin
Yeah, I wish there was a word to encapsulate this feeling, because that's exactly what it is.
Each decade in the 20th century felt unique, had distinct features, made contributions, had a distinct feel. Obviously a lot changed in the past 20 years and we've had major innovations, but they just feel different. And although tastes and mores change, we reached sort of a cultural wall - there was no work left to do, and it sort of just feels stagnant now.
I just think it's the era where we reached a tipping point socially and technologically where escapism is the dominant cultural yearning, technology and the unreal will increasingly become more 'real' than what's real, and we will move further away from each other as individuals. Everything feels stagnant and fractured now.
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Date: December 14th, 2019 12:49 PM Author: ruddy ticket booth
2000s: rise of smartphones and social media, war on terrorism
2010s: rise of SJWs, rise and fall of alt-right, first decade when music was culturally irrelevant
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Date: December 14th, 2019 9:05 PM Author: white hairraiser death wish
10s = Great Recession and rise of extremist movements around the globe
Arab Summer
Tea Party
Occupy
Antifa/DSA
Pepe Populists and their henchman Donald
Brexit
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Date: December 14th, 2019 9:13 PM Author: Fighting library boiling water
victors write the histories. So if libs win:
1. series of subsequent civil rights wins for gays, trannies, women, etc. all rippling out from the 1960s black civil rights movement
2. increasing anger and death-rattles of bad white men in the form of W Bush and Trump, raging in one final impotence against the new dawn
3. tech progress that liberated women from oppression, rendering strength useless, allowing women to press buttons on drone soldiers and lead wars, etc.
4. the final emptying of christian churches, those that remaining serving as gay museums to gay old art
If cons win (this seems more fantastical):
1. The final overreach of liberation-thinking, which even tried to divorce humans from biological sex
2. the provocation that inspired the great act of violence that shook the economy to its core, re-centering it in male dominated activities
3. a kind of weimar period that preceded the great return to suffering and nobility
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Date: December 15th, 2019 5:31 AM Author: vengeful carmine newt
00s - 9/11, War on terror, Iraq War, internet, rise of tech companies, American hegemony near its peak
10s - Smartphones, apps, Arab Spring, Syrian Civil War, political polarization, aftermath of the great recession, worsening quality of life, changing culture, decline of the American empire
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