Spoiler: There's a David Bowie song.

  • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I was born in 95' and around like 2008 when I was like 12 I had the sense that nothing new would ever arise again

    Then I read Capitalist Realism a year ago and I was dude what the fuck

    IDK if I'm a zoomer but there has been this sense my entire that everything was going to be locked in stasis

    honestly growing up past the fall of the USSR must be so fucking weird compared to how people grew up back then

    I really envy boomers both for their security and because they probably got the last gasp of society that hadn't become completely alienated and hollowed out by capitalism

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I'm a millennial and this is fascinating for me, since the impression throughout my life has been there was a short period of rapid progression and change, then a sudden screeching halt where culture is frozen and doomed to repeat itself. Seems like you only got the later part. Sorry about that.

      • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I feel bad for the 2001+~ babies, holy shit I cannot even imagine being in FUCKING elementary school WITH Facebook and all that poisonous shit.

        I really felt Brace in the last TrueAnon episode when he said all social media execs should be put up against the fooken wall, I got introduced to that in like middle school and I'm convinced it gave me brain damage, I was a really shy and fucked up kid from a very poor and dysfunctional family and developed the habit of obsessively stalking people I thought were cool and it gave me a body image disorder for most of my teens and exacerbated my severe depression and anxiety and it still makes me depressed even today when I get on social media because of how lame my life is

        like I moved to a decently affluent suburb by chance (housing crash in 08') and seeing other 12 years old live a lifestyle your dad could never provide you was like....fuck

        It's just so fucked to me too that all of my early childhood experiences were just under the fluorescent lighting of supermarkets and shit because that was the only time I got to be with my parents. My entire experience of the world has just been passing through sterile, endlessly recursive transactional spaces as a member of a poor minority group. I was a "gifted" child but I think even people dumber than me may have realized how fucked this all is....the disconnection goes so deep and then with the whole backdrop of the war on terror and I would read Nat Geo and all this shit about dirty bombs, Abu Ghraib and Al Qaida etc., getting told to go back to Mexico, getting called a wet after spending my early childhood bombarded with post 9/11 patriotism where they told you that this is the greatest country on the fucking planet and if you don't like it well you're lucky you weren't born in shithole Mexico, you fucking wetback

        honestly it's not surprising everyone my age is fucking insane and all the music the people slightly younger than me make is about overdosing on drugs and being addicted to sex