ironypilled & modernity
~reflexions upon viewing a harsh piece of satire~ — remember when men were men and we hurt each other and everyone and ate meat, that ruled — yes, i remember 80s comedians and 90s indie comix. i most associate this bitter apotheosis with a segment of the older cohort of gen X, fatalists of a sort; the last generation to grow up with electric mass culture—tv, vhs, music, radio, film, mixtapes, DIY, zines; bad drugs, because where were you going to learn what was good, much less find it? and, critically, the last generation entering adulthood before the net, before the radical connection to information, affinity, identity, empowerment—i retain an essential optimism about this world-change that i found at its beginning, in my context of the first generation to enter adulthood with a world at our fingertips, including all the bullshit in the world, so, so much more trivia and meretricious reward for spending one's time gorging on the bullshit... this is going to be one of those fun-to-...