Culture (as in actual culture) takes CENTURIES, if not MILLENIA to evolve.
You cant just change the entire paradigm of fashion, music, entertainment, etc. just because the year is now 1980 and not 1979.
Saying this bcs this has been happening since 1945, but it really took a fast lane in the 60s until like 9/11 or something.
Thats when they realized changing every fucking thing in a span of 10 to 10 years was not only hard af to keep up, it was unprofitable, unpractical and inefficient.
So they started using "nostalgia", especially after the 2008 crash, which is just rehashing things from the past and plastering like its the best thing since slice bread.
Enough of slop explaining.
Lets talk about REAL, GRASS ROOTS culture.
Ever noticed how every place in the fucking planet now is USA, just rebranded to local taste?
Thats because globalizated, hyper capitalistic neo liberal monoculture managed to destroy the one thing that it pretended to defend (or not even that, frankly): pluralistic, local, diverse culture.
There was a time in the world, not so long ago, where you could travel to any place in the world and feel like you entered a whole new fucking dimension.
Japan had this, italy had that, india has this and that and much more.
Now they are all a bad copy of the "american way of life" which is just slop in every faucet of human expression.
Let me give you a clear example:
France and italy were the two longest, last standing bastions of ancient, grass roots but modern at the same time avant garde culture, with names in every piece of human expression like: feltrinelli in photography, fellini in filmmaking, alain delon in acting, godard, brigitte bardot, francoise hardy in music yves saint laurent in fashion, etc etc.
Now? Name 10 truly influential figures in the entire world of entertaiment that arent american or british. You could, but it would take a while...
This is too much convenient to be a coincidence.
I heard a prescient joke, that goes like this: "international politics is when the american president calls the British prime minister. And, sometimes, they call france too"
You cant just change the entire paradigm of fashion, music, entertainment, etc. just because the year is now 1980 and not 1979.
Saying this bcs this has been happening since 1945, but it really took a fast lane in the 60s until like 9/11 or something.
Thats when they realized changing every fucking thing in a span of 10 to 10 years was not only hard af to keep up, it was unprofitable, unpractical and inefficient.
So they started using "nostalgia", especially after the 2008 crash, which is just rehashing things from the past and plastering like its the best thing since slice bread.
Enough of slop explaining.
Lets talk about REAL, GRASS ROOTS culture.
Ever noticed how every place in the fucking planet now is USA, just rebranded to local taste?
Thats because globalizated, hyper capitalistic neo liberal monoculture managed to destroy the one thing that it pretended to defend (or not even that, frankly): pluralistic, local, diverse culture.
There was a time in the world, not so long ago, where you could travel to any place in the world and feel like you entered a whole new fucking dimension.
Japan had this, italy had that, india has this and that and much more.
Now they are all a bad copy of the "american way of life" which is just slop in every faucet of human expression.
Let me give you a clear example:
France and italy were the two longest, last standing bastions of ancient, grass roots but modern at the same time avant garde culture, with names in every piece of human expression like: feltrinelli in photography, fellini in filmmaking, alain delon in acting, godard, brigitte bardot, francoise hardy in music yves saint laurent in fashion, etc etc.
Now? Name 10 truly influential figures in the entire world of entertaiment that arent american or british. You could, but it would take a while...
This is too much convenient to be a coincidence.
I heard a prescient joke, that goes like this: "international politics is when the american president calls the British prime minister. And, sometimes, they call france too"
