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> The truth is that youth culture today has no narrative. You couldn't possibly be more wrong. The narrative of today's youth culture is passion. The passion t
by maratd 15y ago
> The truth is that youth culture today has no narrative.
You couldn't possibly be more wrong. The narrative of today's youth culture is passion. The passion to pursue your craft and the freedom to do it your way. To satisfy your curiosity without harming the world around you. It is unbelievably positive and optimistic. Liberty is the narrative of today and it's a narrative that has far more substance than those prior to it.
- moxie 15y agoIf you seriously think that the passion of running a taco stand is more substantial and more liberating than the narrative which led to the events of Paris in May 1968, then I'm sorry for you.
- maratd 15y agoI don't judge a narrative based on its ephemeral qualities or its capacity to be memorable. I judge it based on its moral quality and its capacity to affect positive change. On both of those counts, what came before is clearly inferior.
- neilk 15y agoWhat, you prefer tossing bricks and overturning vehicles, in some spastic orgy of revolutionary zeal that fails to bring about any measurable change? At least tacos are tasty. I pretty much hate May 1968. Not so much for the event itself; there was a lot to admire in what workers did to advance their rights. But for what it meant to the progressive ideal. There was much conflation between the starry-eyed ideals of the students, and the real effects that the strikes had on government. The academic left thought that one caused the other. Hence the glorification of dippy slogans like "I declare a permanent state of happiness". It seems to be the watershed when leftism stopped being about education and material welfare, and started being some kind of conceptual art project.