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Gen Z is using TikTok to teleport to Hogwarts? Is this parody?

by Flankk 5y ago

ineedasername 5y ago
We're in a 2021 mid-COVID civilization. A digital currency based on a dog meme has a market cap of $billions. A hint of bad news will empty store shelves of toilet paper. A chip shortage is in some loose way related to a turkey shortage. We might have been on track anyway, but shit got crazy when 2020 took us down a sharp turn and dark alley towards a mashup of all of the dystopian fiction ever written. Kids thinking they're astral projecting to Hogwarts is downright rational. That world had only a vague internal consistency and it still makes more sense than actual reality right now. It's the equivalent of meteorologists finding themselves in the middle of a Sharknado and deciding that, hey, maybe getting weather from a groundhog wasn't so crazy because a few more/less weeks of winter was an understandable possibility, and Punxsutawney Phil never predicted weather of biblical proportions. It's not parody, it's a coping mechanism because reality right now looks itself like a bad parody written by an SF hack in 2017.
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- recuter 5y ago
  1634 Dodge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania And they weren't even goosing fake market cap bits at the time. > A hint of bad news will empty store shelves of toilet paper. A chip shortage is in some loose way related to a turkey shortage. Ever hear of actual breadlines? This guy thought he was a chicken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtLL3LOi87I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtLL3LOi87I I think you might as well daydream yourself into a reality where the sky isn't falling. ;)
  - ineedasername 5y ago
    I'm not sure what your trying to say. I have heard of breadlines and also the toilet paper shortage (in the US) in the 70s. I picked a couple of examples ready to mind, but there's countless more right now that form a constellation of points that eclipse any single phenomena taken from history. Note that I'm also note saying things are worse right now than other times. I'm saying things are stranger, weirder than other times, less predictable from 3 years earlier, as a civilization, than at other times of high chaos.
    - recuter 5y ago
      There have always been flat earthers. The internet lets the freaks meet and tell each other that they are normal. Now the algorithm fuels it and the media amplifies it. And yet the earth is still not flat, and somehow, still spins. Things are not stranger now, you just hear more about the strange people and unusual things.
      - DarylZero 5y ago
        I don't think it's only that. Things are stranger now because of increasing complexity.
      - ineedasername 5y ago
        Sure, ironic flat earthers bear some resemblance to past cultural touch points like SubGenius, and some people take them too seriously. That isn't the strangeness I'm talking about. Or rather, it's only a part of it: Awareness of it by rank and file average young people is new and has an impact on their worldview and whether or not the world around them makes any sense. But you're cherry picking things like that which are not part of the strangeness that I mean: I'm not sure you can look at lockdowns, quarantines, fundamental shifts in how we talk about socializing, a generation of students losing 1-2 years of normal academic and social development, mass shortages of basic items, the emergence of countless strange digital currencies based on mixtures of ideology, economics, and memes, politicians using the rhetoric of murder against their colleagues... How much more should I go on? I don't think you can look at all of that and reasonably say "things are not stranger now" Even if all of that had been going on previously (it has not) then greater awareness alone would still be enough provocation to push people into seeking the escapism of "RS". Perhaps we are misunderstanding each other on the point that I'm making?
        recuter 5y ago
        I think you should go for a nice long walk and read a good book or two and worry less. Swings and roundabouts.
        5y ago

Gen Z is using TikTok to teleport to Hogwarts? Is this parody?

by Flankk 5y ago

Gen Z is using TikTok to teleport to Hogwarts? Is this parody?

We're in a 2021 mid-COVID civilization. A digital currency based on a dog meme has a market cap of $billions. A hint of bad news will empty store shelves of toilet paper. A chip shortage is in some loose way related to a turkey shortage. We might have been on track anyway, but shit got crazy when 2020 took us down a sharp turn and dark alley towards a mashup of all of the dystopian fiction ever written. Kids thinking they're astral projecting to Hogwarts is downright rational. That world had only a vague internal consistency and it still makes more sense than actual reality right now. It's the equivalent of meteorologists finding themselves in the middle of a Sharknado and deciding that, hey, maybe getting weather from a groundhog wasn't so crazy because a few more/less weeks of winter was an understandable possibility, and Punxsutawney Phil never predicted weather of biblical proportions. It's not parody, it's a coping mechanism because reality right now looks itself like a bad parody written by an SF hack in 2017.

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recuter 5y ago
1634 Dodge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania And they weren't even goosing fake market cap bits at the time. > A hint of bad news will empty store shelves of toilet paper. A chip shortage is in some loose way related to a turkey shortage. Ever hear of actual breadlines? This guy thought he was a chicken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtLL3LOi87I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtLL3LOi87I I think you might as well daydream yourself into a reality where the sky isn't falling. ;)
- ineedasername 5y ago
  I'm not sure what your trying to say. I have heard of breadlines and also the toilet paper shortage (in the US) in the 70s. I picked a couple of examples ready to mind, but there's countless more right now that form a constellation of points that eclipse any single phenomena taken from history. Note that I'm also note saying things are worse right now than other times. I'm saying things are stranger, weirder than other times, less predictable from 3 years earlier, as a civilization, than at other times of high chaos.
  - recuter 5y ago
    There have always been flat earthers. The internet lets the freaks meet and tell each other that they are normal. Now the algorithm fuels it and the media amplifies it. And yet the earth is still not flat, and somehow, still spins. Things are not stranger now, you just hear more about the strange people and unusual things.
    - DarylZero 5y ago
      I don't think it's only that. Things are stranger now because of increasing complexity.
    - ineedasername 5y ago
      Sure, ironic flat earthers bear some resemblance to past cultural touch points like SubGenius, and some people take them too seriously. That isn't the strangeness I'm talking about. Or rather, it's only a part of it: Awareness of it by rank and file average young people is new and has an impact on their worldview and whether or not the world around them makes any sense. But you're cherry picking things like that which are not part of the strangeness that I mean: I'm not sure you can look at lockdowns, quarantines, fundamental shifts in how we talk about socializing, a generation of students losing 1-2 years of normal academic and social development, mass shortages of basic items, the emergence of countless strange digital currencies based on mixtures of ideology, economics, and memes, politicians using the rhetoric of murder against their colleagues... How much more should I go on? I don't think you can look at all of that and reasonably say "things are not stranger now" Even if all of that had been going on previously (it has not) then greater awareness alone would still be enough provocation to push people into seeking the escapism of "RS". Perhaps we are misunderstanding each other on the point that I'm making?
      - recuter 5y ago
        I think you should go for a nice long walk and read a good book or two and worry less. Swings and roundabouts.
        5y ago