We need to go back and decelerate.. to the 1990s
>ONE nintendo 64 game
>PS1 in its entirety
The 1990s were pretty sweet. At least I thought they were. Then again I was kid who was stuck with whatever my parents could or would give me. But it was still alright.
trump 2000, bibi. shit that'd in hindsight bite us in the ass. point of the image is, time in the post-soviet world order is a flat circle
Personally, I've been through all of that. For primarily aesthetic reasons give or take I would say the 80s, but at the same time I feel like it's about time we move into a dystopian future. It would be a dystopian future because we haven't fully realized a post-marxist society, that's not full flown communist tankie style soviet.
I'll try to explain the 90s to you. Basically, there's a difference between the recessions and the economic booms. The current economic model, and I guess it would be the result of capitalism, is designed so that booms and busts (recessions) are inherent to the economic system. It's cyclic basically, it's predictable and you can expect it for sure. It's a part of the system. I can't remember at all at the top of my head but I'll try my best I guess. During the industrial revolution era is also when capitalism became more widely spread.
There used to be this really old fashioned style and aesthetic. I don't remember right now where it all comes from originally, but you can look at parts of Europe. It was just popular for some reason. Due to the economic boom of the 1920s, it became more nuanced and celebrated in a way. Like there was fashion, culture and style in certain places during the 1920s for sure, fast forward to the 1930s, the style from the 1920s is still there in a sense, but it's changed quite differently. Well. I should say it was not just style like clothing but architecture even as well. It was just about everything to an extent. What happens with the 1930s, they basically start trying to change everything, they strip everything away, the lighten everything up, and they take away a lot of the feeling from the world and environments around us.
But what also happened is that there was also this way of living, mentality, belief systems and culture surrounding recessions, (even though capitalism was still new to an extent) but really it was also just basically poverty culture. Because being poor basically is what a recession is. If you are out in the cold, and poor, hungry, whatever. You are in some type of recession more or less, even if it's not like that for everyone around you.
But than flash forward to the 1950s and the style that was used for so long, (who knows how long it was really, like I said it dates back to the 18th century at least) is just forgotten about, and they change everything. It's an economic boom, and it's way different. It's hard to really say what was different about the 1950s, but the 50s itself was actually pretty colorful among other things.
But I think what ended up happening was that the boom was always really different. The boom was like this new different style, I mean what does that mean exactly? strangely enough though, it's almost the opposite way around with the booms. The booms should almost be like the recessions or something?
but basically, the 1990s, it was basically the 1930s to an extent. It was also neo-liberalism. The powers that are preparing us or something to become like the 3rd world. The neo-liberal policies are what lead to the 3rd world becoming the way it has been through recent times, and that is what they want to do to the ourselves I guess.
What you're looking at with the 2010s, was just a progression of the 1990s in general. So what's the point in going back to that? it's like taking something that's shitty, and making it less shitty but it still sucks shit?
hope that makes sense, whatever.
>>779652I need to time travel to 2050 China. This timeline sux.
I just came back because I wanted to elaborate more on the 90s.
What I said was kind of a simplification. I am quite well versed in pop-culture and art in general, and I even like architecture. It's really hard to establish a contingency when talking about this stuff though, I have found people will think all kinds of wild things and it's aggravating because I have managed to established some kind of credibility or factual knowledge. But I guess I'm not listened to very often in general for some reason. I think it is almost because I am too good or something, but than you can't be like Don Quixote, or you'll be considered "crazy" or laughable. But the 90s were unique in many ways, I've studied the style that was around in the 90s, and it was quite eclectic and varied, but when people talk about the 90s, they usually mean the early 90s I think. The rest of the period was kind of undefined and not as memorable.
But it still has roots in what I mentioned, it's basically neo-liberalism, the third world, and the 1930s culture. You really see how they've progressed it. Well, that's what I'm uncertain about. Neo-liberalism started in the 70s…so it's been around for a while. Well, I don't want to ruin the 90s, but that's basically what a lot of what was going on back then culturally and socially was about. It's hard if this was what the original counter culture movement really was meant to become.
But back to the 90s. I think the alternative and underground music scene in the early 90s was really, really good. That was great. I've followed the 90s a bit, and looking at it back than, trying to understand it through the eyes of the underground music scene, it seemed like it was really the start of a new era or something. Gen X was coming of age, and I thought it was interesting how they brought back hippie era sentiments from their youth, but with a tad more cynical and maybe bittersweet reverence. But that kind of served to become how the early music scene was defined and represented, but you see that's how the mainstream media wanted it to be more then anything. A lot of the more notable and influential acts were really trying to do something different. They had a different way of looking at things, acting and thinking. But it didn't last very long for some reason. Well, it just stayed underground I guess, but it wasn't burgeoning, it was a thriving scene after a certain point.
Gen X was tackling with issues like how they were going to inherit a world of less and shrinking opportunities than the generation of the past. But what I really wanted to talk about was the subcultures I think too. The subcultures were really organic and real, they weren't fake at all. It's hard to describe, it's just I think they had a good idea there. They just made subcultures for like everything, and they really managed to represent a wide variety of diversity, and inclusion I think due to that. What I perceived with the subcultures is what I think is closer to what a real functioning collectivist society could be like that. Even though I know that's not what most people think of as collectivism. It's not for sure, it's not far removed either.
I guess I've just decided not to accept what it is with the third world, neo-liberalism, and the dirty 30s. I know it's what people want to think is liberalism or something but I just don't fully accept it. But I just don't accept a boom necessarily either. It's just god, how do we decide how resources allocated a bit? I just think, production isn't bad entirely, I have to be on the side of production a bit. I don't want to live in a grey, boring and bland monotone homogeneous world. I don't want to take the workers jobs away from them. I just think of really unique cars or something, well, we won't have any cool sports cars or anything in the future, we'll have just have boring bland grey and white big SUV monster cars that all look the same. If you like or want something with a bit of flair or personality, than you can't have that for sure.
I just think people should be allowed to go at their own pace a bit. That's why I almost think it's the third worlds fault a bit almost. But I don't know their must be some type of solution. I just don't agree with taking away or limiting freedom so drastically.