• Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    12·
    26 days ago

    Oof

    I felt that third paragraph

    Our current generation thinks in meme templates and comedy (or “racial humor” aka racist humor.

    Every line has to be a “zinger”

    Every article is just putting a spin on a popular idea, even a correct idea, but not really deepening or building off or it.

    We have catch phrases.

    “Words as stimuli” some psychologists have called it

    We react.

    We don’t really think.

    We yap because it gets us attention and validation.

    But nothing new is produced.

    Nothing new is said.

    Then we have ideas like “Everything that has been thought has been thought of before” or “There are no new ideas under the sun”

    And I just… disagree with that.

    We think our environment is all there is.

    “Cognitive narrowing” as it’s sometimes called.

    • demeritum@lemmygrad.ml
      17·
      26 days ago

      Cultural hegemony is neoliberalism whose output is postmodernism and that means endless deconstructions and subversions.

      • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        8·
        26 days ago

        “Nothing is true; everything is permitted” so says a popular video game series.

        Very liberating when you hear it as a child.

        But even then, I had reservations.

        I guess do believe in sanctity.

        I am not a secularist.

        I am an atheist.

        But we still need awe.and wonder.

        And values and virtues.

        I don’t believe in chaos.

        Chaos has always hurt me, just like it allowed people in my actual life, white supremacists and fascists, to hurt me.

      • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        4·
        26 days ago

        Tbh, I was speaking to more than just the “racial humor” thing (I realized that I typed what I said too fast and didn’t word the first part correctly)

        But yeah, I agree.

        Honestly, when people don’t believe in stuff to begin with.

        Then people can fill your head with all sorts of things.