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It's 404ing for now, so maybe the contents actually defy the title when I finally will get to RTFA. I have to say, I'm amused by a lot of the contrarian article
by MrLeap 6y ago
It's 404ing for now, so maybe the contents actually defy the title when I finally will get to RTFA. I have to say, I'm amused by a lot of the contrarian articles showing up on HN recently. There seems to be a growing tendency to shed a lot of the saccharine optimism of the last decade.
"Work on unimportant problems"
"Be more unlikeable"
"How to cope with <insert worksplace horror>"
"Why you should kill your parents"
I wonder if these are portent to the developing zeitgeist.
- mrspeaker 6y agoI managed to get the article to load - it is content-free. It's just the headline, with a very weak argument attached (the old "difficult people make stuff happen").
- rjkennedy98 6y agoI don't agree with most of those, but you can't argue with the last one.
- fizixer 6y agoPostmodernism 2.0
- bserge 6y ago> the saccharine optimism of the last decade You and I must've hung out in completely different circles, including online :D But yeah the media is like this because once some "trend" gets oversaturated, someone starts another one (or more likely, revives an old one) and soon everyone jumps on that ship. Actually, it applies to most things. Personally I can't wait for flat design to die out.
- MrLeap 6y agoProbably so! Just HN/Youtube as far as my media consumption goes for the last while. HN has tended very much towards the optimistic entrepreneurial advice end of the spectrum for a decade, for understandable reasons. My youtube channels are nearly devoid of the shrill screech of contemporary political discourse. It leaks in occasionally, like witnessing an occluded star by gravitational lensing. I don't know how people stand the unoccluded version. I've been doing my part to help kill flat design by pitching depth and shadows every chance I get. I'm nearly in the stockades. :D Also, down with the cult of monochrome!