Liked fad: Arcades. When I lived in Japan I would hit up the Sega arcade near me with friends every couple weeks, it was our version of going to a bar or something like that. In America the only decent quality arcades are Dave and Buster's, and while those are fine they don't fill the same niche (and there are none close to me).
The popularity of Minions among the boomers strikes me as tapping into the little class consciousness they have while they also are completely and totally obedient to the ruling class.
It's also somewhat indicative of a sort of internalised classism because the Minions are incompetent at pretty much everything. The petty-bourgeoise boomers like the Minions because they see their workers in that way while the prole boomers like it because they have been fundamentally broken-in by capital and have internalised hate for their class.
It's a really interesting situation, the minions are self-inserts for hyper obedient completely broken-in proles. A mindset that I suspect is only possible among extremely positive people who have generally had a reasonably ok time as a prole, the reason the appeal is so high among boomers but less so among the young is because that hyper positivity is just not there among millenials and younger. Only Gen X and above (and children) really latched onto Minions in this way and that comes from the different material conditions that created them.
I suspect it's impossible for us to win the Gen X and above crowd of people to socialism. They were created by specific material conditions and those material conditions are a core of who they are, re-molding that is probably possible but requires resources and time that we do not have.
I just want a place I can go and play old-school shoot-em-ups like Raiden and Donpachi.
The Pizza Hut where I grew up used to have a Raiden 2 machine. I'd always play it and even though I sucked and couldn't make it past the first level, little kid me was devastated when the removed it.
Liked fad: Arcades. When I lived in Japan I would hit up the Sega arcade near me with friends every couple weeks, it was our version of going to a bar or something like that. In America the only decent quality arcades are Dave and Buster's, and while those are fine they don't fill the same niche (and there are none close to me).
Disliked fad: God damn I hate minions.
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The popularity of Minions among the boomers strikes me as tapping into the little class consciousness they have while they also are completely and totally obedient to the ruling class.
It's also somewhat indicative of a sort of internalised classism because the Minions are incompetent at pretty much everything. The petty-bourgeoise boomers like the Minions because they see their workers in that way while the prole boomers like it because they have been fundamentally broken-in by capital and have internalised hate for their class.
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It's a really interesting situation, the minions are self-inserts for hyper obedient completely broken-in proles. A mindset that I suspect is only possible among extremely positive people who have generally had a reasonably ok time as a prole, the reason the appeal is so high among boomers but less so among the young is because that hyper positivity is just not there among millenials and younger. Only Gen X and above (and children) really latched onto Minions in this way and that comes from the different material conditions that created them.
I suspect it's impossible for us to win the Gen X and above crowd of people to socialism. They were created by specific material conditions and those material conditions are a core of who they are, re-molding that is probably possible but requires resources and time that we do not have.
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I just want a place I can go and play old-school shoot-em-ups like Raiden and Donpachi.
The Pizza Hut where I grew up used to have a Raiden 2 machine. I'd always play it and even though I sucked and couldn't make it past the first level, little kid me was devastated when the removed it.
but what about r/WackyTicTacs?