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-> The cool thing in millenial culture is to not care about anything. It seems to be quite the opposite. Every week I'm let know what it is I'm supposed to be

-> The cool thing in millenial culture is to not care about anything. It seems to be quite the opposite. Every week I'm let know what it is I'm supposed to be outraged about. -> I would even say that South Park isn't sarcastic or satirical and is instead flatly advocating utter nihilism. It would seem, if anything, South Park just tries to round things out to free speech. You can call that nihilism, I guess, in a sort of perfunctory way.

MCRed 11y ago
->Every week I'm let know what it is I'm supposed to be outraged about. I call this the "Five minutes of hate". If you don't get that reference, read 1984 by George Orwell. I think you'll find it very illuminating. One week, it was Chik-fil-a and how we should hate them because their CEO gave money to a cause I disagree with, the next it's some baker in oregon who dared to refuse to do a wedding cake for a gay couple. (I'm queer, I believe in gay marriage, but just because you have the right to marry doesn't mean you have the right to make some business sell you something.) There's a lot of other stuff from 1984 that have become real- The memory hole-- how everyone forgets the past (and the media-- our big shouting head-- pretends like it doesn't exist.) Double-Speak is Double-plus real too. Etc.
- jinushaun 11y ago
  Oh. My. God. You're right! Social media is our version of the Two Minutes Hate. I've been complaining about this for years! Can't believe I never made that connection.
tedks 11y ago
>It seems to be quite the opposite. Every week I'm let know what it is I'm supposed to be outraged about. One of the things that's most jarring about the Internet age is that a minority group that previously would be blacklisted from newspapers, ignored by local administrators, etc., can actually broadcast its grievances to the world as a whole without any mediation. The decline of money going to journalism as the print medium dies means that instead of an actual journalist working on a story for weeks at a time, a "journalist" is a SEO grayhat with a click quota, and pulling "stories" from twitter is easy. Do you think that most millenials are activists? How many do you think are involved in activism? How many millenials do you think have been to a protest? >It would seem, if anything, South Park just tries to round things out to free speech. You can call that nihilism, I guess, in a sort of perfunctory way. I think you're reading too much into the theme of this season -- it's easy to do that when it seems like someone agrees with you. But how does dismissing climate change, gun control advocacy, or the concern of parents over their children's safety relate to free speech?
- remarkEon 11y ago
  -> Do you think that most millenials are activists? How many do you think are involved in activism? How many millenials do you think have been to a protest? I think a lot would call themselves activists, yeah. Because like you pointed out the barriers to participation are considerably lower and millennials are an entire generation removed from the the 1960s-70s, so they didn't witness the civil rights movement etc. Now, how many have actually been to a protest? I'm not sure, but I also don't think that matters anymore since that seems hardly the threshold level for participation anymore. -> I think you're reading too much into the theme of this season -- it's easy to do that when it seems like someone agrees with you. But how does dismissing climate change, gun control advocacy, or the concern of parents over their children's safety relate to free speech? And we wouldn't want any room for debate on those nuanced, complicated issues now, would we.

MCRed 11y ago

->Every week I'm let know what it is I'm supposed to be outraged about. I call this the "Five minutes of hate". If you don't get that reference, read 1984 by George Orwell. I think you'll find it very illuminating. One week, it was Chik-fil-a and how we should hate them because their CEO gave money to a cause I disagree with, the next it's some baker in oregon who dared to refuse to do a wedding cake for a gay couple. (I'm queer, I believe in gay marriage, but just because you have the right to marry doesn't mean you have the right to make some business sell you something.) There's a lot of other stuff from 1984 that have become real- The memory hole-- how everyone forgets the past (and the media-- our big shouting head-- pretends like it doesn't exist.) Double-Speak is Double-plus real too. Etc.

jinushaun 11y ago
Oh. My. God. You're right! Social media is our version of the Two Minutes Hate. I've been complaining about this for years! Can't believe I never made that connection.

tedks 11y ago

>It seems to be quite the opposite. Every week I'm let know what it is I'm supposed to be outraged about. One of the things that's most jarring about the Internet age is that a minority group that previously would be blacklisted from newspapers, ignored by local administrators, etc., can actually broadcast its grievances to the world as a whole without any mediation. The decline of money going to journalism as the print medium dies means that instead of an actual journalist working on a story for weeks at a time, a "journalist" is a SEO grayhat with a click quota, and pulling "stories" from twitter is easy. Do you think that most millenials are activists? How many do you think are involved in activism? How many millenials do you think have been to a protest? >It would seem, if anything, South Park just tries to round things out to free speech. You can call that nihilism, I guess, in a sort of perfunctory way. I think you're reading too much into the theme of this season -- it's easy to do that when it seems like someone agrees with you. But how does dismissing climate change, gun control advocacy, or the concern of parents over their children's safety relate to free speech?

remarkEon 11y ago
-> Do you think that most millenials are activists? How many do you think are involved in activism? How many millenials do you think have been to a protest? I think a lot would call themselves activists, yeah. Because like you pointed out the barriers to participation are considerably lower and millennials are an entire generation removed from the the 1960s-70s, so they didn't witness the civil rights movement etc. Now, how many have actually been to a protest? I'm not sure, but I also don't think that matters anymore since that seems hardly the threshold level for participation anymore. -> I think you're reading too much into the theme of this season -- it's easy to do that when it seems like someone agrees with you. But how does dismissing climate change, gun control advocacy, or the concern of parents over their children's safety relate to free speech? And we wouldn't want any room for debate on those nuanced, complicated issues now, would we.