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fnord. Hmm, this seems very well thought out and interesting; I wonder what the rest of HN thinks.
by fao_ 11y ago
fnord. Hmm, this seems very well thought out and interesting; I wonder what the rest of HN thinks.
- jsnell 11y agoTo me it appears to be completely incoherent conspiracy theory babble mixed in with a pretty random looking selection of music. Must be some kind of a joke that I'm missing.
- rspeer 11y agoIt's not meant to be funny, it's meant to be artsy and surreal.
- TheOtherHobbes 11y agoConsider the past as a continuum of psychological accessories. And drum loops.
- shredprez 11y agoI read it as a shoutout to this persistent music/art movement that mashes visual and auditory references to "retro culture" from the 70s and 80s with modern production techniques. It's been around for close to a decade now and has a very distinctive look and feel. It's interesting because it all evokes an era that never actually existed and the library of "lore" for this era just keeps growing.
- peter_l_downs 11y agoI'd call it Art – made me think about some things I hadn't thought about before (well, back when I first saw it, in 2011.)
- noonespecial 11y agoIt challenges how we think about "eras" by inventing one from whole cloth. In the end they are more arbitrary than it first seems. For example, the American "wild west" period seems much larger and more distant than it actually was. (Mostly thanks to a glut of Hollywood movies about the period). It is quite possible to have slung a six-gun and driven cattle in the "old west" and still lived to witness the beginnings of the space race. I've found that this phenomenon effects me personally as well with the "formative years" of my late teens and early twenty's seeming to occupy a much larger place in my memory than chronology otherwise suggests. Makes one think.
- fao_ 11y agoThat was the joke. I thought the fnord elucidated it...