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doesnt look like it ended in a lot of fun tho.
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2000s aren't all bad, look at the massive shift towards mainstreaming LGBT culture and normalizing it. Look at how overt racism has finally become taboo when in the 90s that kind of trash was perfectly acceptable civil behavior. Look at how much more health and environmentally conscious people are in their daily.routines.. we made some significant gains from what it was in the early 90s..
No, we're not all hyper critical as we were then but that may largely be a result of having worked out a lot of the problems we were all so pissed offabout in 80s and 90s.. Like Kurt said, "this is for all the dinosaurs out there, who will die, and then we'll move into their homes."
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good points brah.
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noone has to or should do anything genteel says
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load up bots
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think cobain would like this in a thread about him
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i don't remember it as positive-- it was fucking PARANOID. as you recall from deleuze/guattari, paranoids are fascists. then again those people do pretend to be happy. yes it was a fucking fascist decade, but that had nothing to do with music. terrist terrist terrist nucular terrist terrist nucular nucular weppens terrist terrist terrist = paranoia. Quote:
back then bombed out cities still offered a kind of economic refuge but gentrification is now in overdrive. soon after seattle became fashionable people migrated there in troves. plus the microsoft economy made many rich. then portland became fashionable. yuppies and developers have been buying chunks of detroit in overdrive for years now. "it's so artsyyyyy". not for long... the futue lifestyle centers or whatever the fuck open-space malls are called these days are being parceled out as we speak. i haven't checked this fact but i'd bet money it already offers some kind of (new, boho) "destination" spots. Quote:
that may be the insider's view in 20/20 hindsight, but the mass culture didn't see that movie or go to those shows-- it was the video with the sick looking cheerleader and the grim-faced janitor over & over on mtv that got watched in places like idaho or indiana. nirvana "allowed" (i'll clarify that later)--it allowed rock to be about pain and depression, and opened the door to all manner of earnest bands-- for a while anyway. radiohead were moaning cause i'm a creep. beck singing i'm a loser baby, so why don't you leave me. it's not like nirvana gave people permission to think & feel these things, which have been around forever-- it's more like big business realized there was big money in that sort of broadcast because it resonated with a lot of people. you're dead on w/ noticing the transition from hair bands-- the bands that were used to force noriega out of the vatican embassy after the invasion of panama. the best encapsulation of that change is that scene in "the wrestler" where he bitches about how music used to be fun and then came nirvana. look up the clip on youtube. what happened is the mantle of mass culture *finally* was passed from entitled boomers into the hands of jaded gen-xers. it had been long overdue but it did not last long either. gen-xers were small in number and got squeezed at both ends-- boomers values had a long overbearing reign and the obedient milennials woke up early (this is the conservatism of the 00's that nik remarked upon--and the source of the social progress you mention-- supernice milennials-- and milennials are supernice but also compliant-- they don't mind being groped at the airport). also gen-xer cynical youth culture was overridden by the clinton era and soon you had bobos in paradise-- making millions while sitting at a starbucks. so the milennials occupied wall street. hary rama. |
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im a millenial who wanted to be a gen xer really bad.
think the movie ginger snaps was prob the height of gen x - they have a suicide pact - but in the end the one who goes through the transition to adulthood metaphor is killed by the one who doesnt. after that what else is there to do but splash on day glo paint listen to animal collective and facebook update your way to obsolescence at the hands of your skynet overlords.
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say what you want about boomers but we could have used some of that weather underground attitude around 03
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every generation sort of wants to be the previous one because that's what they grow up watching. the problem is they can't because the conditions are different.
e.g.-- boomers had free love, but gen xers had aids. many genxers grew up with boomer fantasies though-- this is the motivation behind a show like californication, which survived 7 seasons on tv. it's supposed gen-xer dude (with hair dye to make him look younger) living out rocknroll fantasies from the 70s. it's pure wish fulfillment. as for the WU-- yes but they were also middle class kids against the draft. take out the draft and out goes the motivation to *really* fight the war. let the poors do it in a volunteer professional army. it's true that boomers gave us some kind of revolution though-- flawed as it was. gen-xers gave us better food, better coffee, better wine, and microbrews. as boomers became yuppies, genxers became bobos (those who could). this bobo term was in circulation around the year 2000, coined by a journo-- it has survived in some places but it's mostly forgotten. still i think it was an accurate concept-- the melding of bohemian & bourgeois culture in the rich, the upper middle classes, and their emulators. this is why gentrification is on perpetual fast-forward now, btw-- the affluent crave "authentic" urban experiences instead of fleeing them like they did before. |
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thats so true about californication.
gen x gave us the net. my hope for millenials is we can keep the net free, open, anonymous and circulate everything the individual needs to survive against a system designed to gut him for profit.
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Better beer and coffee thank God because we are surely in their debt as i sip as Jules would say, "that gourmet shit" and have some great IPA waiting in the fridge at home..
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milennials turned the net away from anonymity though-- they are the ones who fattened facebook, and the old people followed them. even moot eventually showed his face & name. this as he went on ted to champion anonimity (oh the irony). all of reality happens on twatter now.
but the currents always return-- it's not like forces & ideologies ever go away completely. e.g. "punk" was a boomer minority creation in opposition to rockstars, but became a mainstream thing with genxers. then we had avril lavigne. currents ebb & flow. i know this sounds like a pathetic consolation prize, but there is some satisfaction in identifying & following some of those currents as they attract your personal interest. maybe some of those currents look big now but will turn to nothing. maybe some look insignificant now & will be huge in the future. it's a bit like the stock market. -- @ suchfriends- fuck the ipa fetish, and all middle class fetishes with that. it's always the same empty promise but enlightenment doesn't come. just endless running of the hedonic treadmill. im buying 30 cans of miller high life for $18 at walmart today. |
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Oh, if haven't had the double malt theophany you don't know what you're missing, beer as sweet as summer ripe fruit and thick as syrup.
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