Millennial Woes
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Before you condemn Gen Z and the seeming re-cycling of 80’s music and culture remember that the 90’s was, musically at least a rehash of the 70’s. Inspired by, in tone and construction maybe, but the the sound was unmistakably a reinterpretation of the 70’s.

It was a melancholic throw back to happier, sunnier and slower time of a Gen X childhood and that was the saddest part of the 90’s. It was an emotional and creative regression, an indulgence because essentially there was nothing new.

Each decade of the 20th century had its unique sound and look, artistically and culturally. The jazz sound and neo-noir of the 40’s, rock n roll and the classic Americana of the 50’s, counter culture of the 60’s, 70’s fusion and the electronic synth of the 80’s. Each decade had it unique identifiable look and sound but the 90’s was an end of school party, celebratory and hedonistic and perhaps the last gasp of creativity.

Gen Z the children of those that were either creating or enjoying the 90’s, have emerged into a cultural landscape deprived of inspiration. Every generation should have its own “pop” it’s own contribution to the ongoing expression of a societies story. But Gen Z have seemingly disappeared or perhaps abandoned, raised in their bedrooms, locked to the interactivity of their computers and the internet.

A simulacrum of a childhood, detached from visceral existence and deprived of even any input from their forbears they are primed, empty consuming vessels. Netflix et al for want of any originality and motivated by greed will gladly feed them revived or “re-discovered classics”. Why not strain the cultural towel one further twist and wring out that last drop and
sell it.

But Gen Z are finding themselves being fed a copy another’s youth without any of the establishing experiences because that very generation abandoned their children to their gadgets and their isolation.

The healthiest activity for Gen Z is perhaps to put an instrument into their hands, a pen, a paintbrush, a book. Or should they be left to Zuckerberg’s Metaverse for which they seem so perfectly primed?

Revitalise a generation, switch off!
Well now, this looks like an interesting event...

https://nomosevents.co.uk/2022/08/10/nomos-london-tickets-on-sale-now/
@NomosEvents now have a dedicated Telegram channel with an accompany chat, which can be used to arrange AirBNB shares etc. to help people attend the events.

https://t.me/NomosEvents/4
I am not logged into YouTube (I no longer have an account) so its awareness of my viewing preferences must surely be minimal. I finish watching a Kraftwerk video. Look at the recommendations that come up.

John Cleese's War On Wokeism (792k views)
Neil Oliver talking about the coming tyranny (385k views)

I guess these are being recommended because the system does indeed have some vague awareness that I am "into dissident stuff", and this results in it feeding this kind of material to the person - John Cleese, Neil Oliver, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro. This is the lowest rung of the dissident ladder, the least aware (or most dishonest) and least controversial voices.

In the case of Neil Oliver, I think he is a naive guy who really knows nothing about "the world" and is being used as a patsy. John Cleese is too old to learn anything, and when he was young enough, he was too arrogant to learn. Jordan Peterson of course is just a frightened, weak and somewhat mentally ill man. Ben Shapiro, enough said.
Another complaint about YouTube: they have changed the formatting so that the video description is hidden until you click a button to see it. WTF? Why? A pointless and annoying change.

I swear they're just looking for changes to make so as to "do something".
"Actually, there IS enough to do, we just don't do it because there's no profit in it. Instead of bullshit jobs or UBI the state could create real government jobs (with perks, competition and so on) to do all kinds of useful things. From the top of my head: turning industrial looking natural landscapes into beautiful, accessible but also nature-friendly parks; learning and then translating any book from any language into our own - expanding its vocabulary and its concepts; having way more teachers and splitting up the pupils according to sex, talents and learning types; celebrating and showcasing any of the hundreds of time periods in our several thousand years of history (fashion, tools, language, religion, and so on); designing unique buildings on a mass scale instead of uniform lego flats; and so on..."
- Gregor in @mwpublic
If you buy an AC unit, make sure to choose one with a "dehumidifier" mode. It's much, much more effective against the heat.
What a delightful thing to say!
Twitter censorship has now reached such a fever pitch of daily culling that, pretty much every single day, another public figure is banned for life from the platform.

Since the ascent to this fever pitch has been gradual, it is easy to forget what things were like in the before-time.

In 2014, you could pretty much say anything you wanted on Twitter. People were voicing whatever their opinion was that day on any given topic, with no hesitancy, no worry, no fearful looking over their shoulder or second-guessing how their words could possibly be misconstrued. Other people were posting obscenely racist memes. Many people were insulting silly, attention-seeking celebrities. Many were taking politicians to task on their hypocrisy, incompetence or corruption.

Very controversial people were amassing large followings, and this was not even remarked upon, since everyone took for granted that everyone - everyone - was entitled to take part in the public discourse. The idea of banning someone from the global public square, for life, merely for expressing an opinion... that would have seemed laughable and outrageous to everyone in 2014.

Especially after the so-called "Arab Spring" of 2010/1, it was understood not only that rebellion against the status quo happened on Twitter, but that this was one of the platform's primary and most noble purposes. The very opposite is the case today. The status quo is now seen as something very fragile, very vulnerable, which has to be defended constantly from villains of a thousand descriptions - and they are always villains, for no good person would want to change the status quo we all enjoy in the West of 2022.

I can't remember exactly how the deplatforming began. So much has happened, it feels like deep lore at this stage. I think it played out something like this:
1. Andrew Anglin
2. Milo
3. the more "outrageous" Alt-Right figures (eg. Mike Enoch)
4. Alex Jones
5. then virtually all other Alt-Right figures
6. certain memes became bannable offences (NPC, "learn to code", etc.)
7. anyone saying anything anti-Semitic
8. anyone saying anything racist
9. a whole list of bigotries became bannable offences (transphobia, homophobia, Islamophobia...)
10. a whole list of opinions became bannable offences (covid is a hoax, George Floyd wasn't murdered, the Biden election was rigged, transgenderism is a mental illness, etc.)
11. The sitting President of the USA, Donald Trump

... so that, today, far from needing to post crass extreme anti-Semitism to get banned, merely voicing an unfashionable opinion can see anyone banned for life, whether they are an anonymous troll or a high-profile public person who has, hitherto, relied on the platform throughout their career.

I don't know when or how this censorship will end, but I doubt it will be pretty.
LOL
The Trump syndrome: they will abandon their core voters in order to win "acceptability" with the media who despise them, and in the end will achieve absolutely nothing while nixing the chances of rising stars who actually have balls. Their new watered-down platform will make them indistinguishable from their media darling rivals, and a tedious tug of war will take place between them that will result in a meaningless victory for one side or the other. After all of this, the media will still despise them.

By definition, you cannot ever win by trying to earn your enemy's approval.

https://t.me/HuWhitePapers/230
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Save this as an example of how studies and stats can be, and often are, cobbled together in order to provide support for a given narrative or think tank.

The study was published by a sCiEnCE jOuRNaL actually named “Temperature”. Might as well be called “We are hammers and every problem is a nail.”
Fellas, remember this. If she nags you or berates your interests, your hobbies, etc., if she isn't grateful that you exist and are the guy you are... then get her out of your life.

https://t.me/bubbakate2/177