Half way through the book the wall collapses, and having no job, he shoots David Bowie in Berlin after discovering he has underage groupies. The rest of the book is him being put on trial with all the teenagers and real life musicians he beat up testifying against him.
Folks when our turn comes we have to not be dickheads about youth culture.
i unironically think that the 6 second video format is inimical to in depth thought or criticism. its had a toxic influence on other mediums as well, youtubers all have tiktok editing (changes every 6 seconds) now, even movies and TV shows have been SEO optimized with stupid quips and memes that are stale before the movies release.
Banning it is one thing. But you need to replace it with something good. So many nerds get mad at children for enjoying shitty content but offer nothing in return. All you accomplish is looking like a hateful boomer no one likes being around
Oh fuck no, the old people in the Soviet Union were absolutely right to hate rock and roll and blue jeans. Shit is corrosive towards the soul.
First of all, I won't allow anyone to say "Jerry Falwell" without the title “comrade”.
true. After The Revolution the only music allowed by the state will be free jazz and wall noise, and the only clothing will be latex bodysuits, bolo ties, and religious garb.
if i can't wear a baggy utility jumpsuit after the revolution whats even the point? i guess i can deal with the religious garb thing, i love robes.
We should return to tunics as the main garment. Trousers are just PPE for horseriding.
Tunics are awesome. they're like t-shirts if t-shirts weren't shit.
blue jeans are at least corrosive to the balls, who tf puts a huge rough thick seam right there
also corrosive to hip mobility, never try to do parkour in jeans.
Who? I do. I do it for fashion, and because because I'm used to it and honestly don't know what other pants to buy. But it does suck.
no that's silly. Rock and roll is literally just a way of structuring the beat of a song. It makes just as much sense to say doo wop is corrosive towards the soul
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I see your point, comrade. We must unleash the terrorsphere on the rock and roll hall of fame.
When our turn comes, we will make no excuses for the terrible music
it's what the youth want part of the fun of it is rebellion and defining their own thing.
it's not rebellion unless there's an old curmudgeon scolding them. It's dialectical
Unfortunately the left doesn’t have a monopoly on the concept of rebellion. Plenty of young people end up right wing with old leftists scolding them
i'm not even talking politically. I just want to complain about the new words and strange music I don't understand
Hardcore? To the mega? Anodic dance music? Just help me solve this murder, dammit!The USSR fell because of a neoliberal coup, not because the youth wanted to listen to rock music. The dissolution was voted against in the referendum, there were riots on the streets and the supreme soviet was fucking bombed.
if the USSR was around today and soviet youths could see how stupid their western counterparts are via the internet they'd probably all be patsocs.
how many successful revolutionaries were ravers lmao, my man joe steel never misses
seriously tho look into CIA funding for the arts back in the day, we propped up mr. soup can painter to prove that capitalists had 'better culture' than the soviets, we propped up 'show don't tell' style writing/analysis to prevent the masses from having detailed and abstract thoughts/criticism. even if whatever specific music mentioned isn't a CIA op it would have been a safe bet to assume it was in that historical context lol.
we propped up 'show don't tell' style writing/analysis to prevent the masses from having detailed and abstract thoughts/criticism.
Do you really want the alternative of "tell don't show" though, because that's how you get Atlas Shrugged's infamous 60-page John Galt speech
its also how you get Dostoevsky afaik
edit: which as an american i obiously haven't read lol, my bookshelf here is like 80% trashy warhammer 40k novels
Yeah but it's also how you get Brecht, and Brecht is worth it imo..
we propped up 'show don't tell' style writing/analysis to prevent the masses from having detailed and abstract thoughts/criticism
the point of promoting show don't tell was to prevent people from making direct calls to action. i'd say valuing metaphor and allegory probably makes people more adept at the abstract if they're proficient at reading it
we took care of people reading & thinking proficiently with school privatization, don't get the two phenomena mixed up
Stalin was a lot of things one of those things is a man raised in the 1900's who liked to watch western movies
Was in Berlin in my younger days and spent a whole afternoon in the "ddr" museum. the fact that I wasted a wasted a whole afternoon on liberal propaganda, and not w my German lover, I'll never amend.
It's wild how accurate this is three decades later. Metal still with neo fascist attitudes, too many punks seem to just oppose everything and anything ("you can't tell me what to do" attitude)
this document don't miss, pretty astute in its assessments I would say
It is quite interesting the way this policy developed as intitially the east german state wanted to have everyone have a stable job, hobbies etc but found that while a lot of people could be helped with that a subsection of society basically don't want that they want to drink and fight and play loud music
What if the youth are literal nazis? It would flip the dynamic of the old being reactionary and the young like not on its head.
