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Originally Posted by Keeping It Gimple
yeah but where has all that cynicism and sarcasm gone since the 90s ended? its dissappeared, and the 00s were even worse, iraq 2 killed by rumsfelds corporate buddies cheap electric showers boogaloo was much worse than iraq 1 where you just invaded the pulled out just in time for the revolutionaries waiting for your help to make themselves visible then get slaughtered - it was a kind of willed suicide mission for the us army and a deliberate destruction of iraq for profit which failed and has now created isis.
add to that the fact that real income for the masses has been declining since the 70s and then the great recession -
and what did you get? 00s culture was even more hyper conservative and positive than zombie reagans alzhiemer dementia hallucination/memory of it. in fact positivity and cheeriness became MANDATORY and dissenters are punished as mentally ill and lose their jobs.
so we havent made any progress and the idea of culture is part of the problem.
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I don't think being part of a culture is a choice as such. You can lie down on your bed for years on end and still participate in the prominent culture of your surroundings without being conscious of doing so by simply turning the lights of your room on, watching whatever is on your tv, ipad etc. Cynicism and , I imagine, the consequent sarcasm that may follow, are only tiny indications you have criticism for your own surroundings but they amount to tiny achievements unless you actively divert the course of reality and create another environment for people similar to you to fall into. I can't see how that's not creating a different type of culture, embracing everything that it entails.