Thing is, I can't even really imagine a different outcome to this. I don't know as though I had either the options, or the ability to do differently.

  • SuperNovaCouchGuy [any]
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    2 years ago

    Off topic :galaxy-brain: moment:

    Classic era : 8 years (2^3)

    MLG era : 4 years (2^2)

    Surreal era : 2 years (2^1)

    Post irony : 1 year (2^0)

    the acceleration of internet memes from the face value innocence of the classic era where there are distinctly "human" forms against a whitespace of possibility and wonder to the cynical self-aware post-ironic era where everything has melted together in an absurdist yet pessimistic glut, everywhere and nowhere at the same time, mirrors a post-modern liberal subject's coming of age

      • SuperNovaCouchGuy [any]
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        2 years ago

        for that calculation i did 2019-2020 since after 2020 id argue that something new has arrived due to the coronavirus pandemic and we dont know yet because we're in it

        but the divisions are arbitrary since i just wrote that as some semi-coherent pseudointellectual bullshit for teh memes

    • Zoift [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      This is McKenna's Timewave theory.

      Welcome to the zero-point.

        • Zoift [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          So Terrence McKenna was a botanist and pop-philospher who dropped a lot of acid, so the "theory" is more a loose collection of ideas. Think :jesse-wtf: posting, but it's the 70's and the vibes are right.

          So basically it posits history comes in cycles of novelty. New ideas, new memes, new structures and power dynamics, that will eventually stagnate out until the next cycle. But these cycles are getting shorter and shorter as time goes on, so time isn't a flat circle, it's an inward spiral.

          The zero-point is when the spiral winds so tight there is no longer a distinction. The cultural singularity. A point of infinite novelty that goes nowhere at all.

          He predicted it would hit in 2012.

            • Zoift [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Lol, he thought it would be a good thing.

              :Spider-Jerusalem: Oh ye of faith... :agony-immense:

              We have such sights to show now

          • SuperNovaCouchGuy [any]
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            2 years ago

            tfw taking acid helped a guy predict neoliberal cultural stagnation and endless regurgitation of dead cultural artifacts

            :shinji-screm:

            thanks for the explanation :rat-salute:

      • SuperNovaCouchGuy [any]
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        2 years ago

        i think someone on youtube unironically made a sketch about that premise lol