What is the Concept of this Decade?
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Also known by the future historians as 'the 2edgies'.
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Also known by the future historians as 'the 2edgies'.
Why not? I mean, we shit all over slavers.McElroy said:
I understand, your putting them into the context of their time. Doesn't make it acceptable. At all. This time was used to develop the concept of human rights. It's just that some people had to pay a way bigger price than others.
Also, your total correct. The Constitution was a pretty terrible document. As I stated, it definitely favoured certain people over others. It's almost like the Founding Fathers were tyrants themselves. Couldn't keep their dirty little mitts of the cookie jar. All of it wouldn't be so galling if they weren't the one writing it and favour themselves.
But, that might sound way too much like Feminism talk.
Sure. What I want to be clear with is that people draw stuff like Human Rights for the future, not to take jabs at the past and certainly not to retroactively come up with punishments for what was done in the past. We have to accept the linear nature of time and causality. Thinking it's injustice that slavers weren't caught abusing human rights in the 1850s is a little dumb, in my opinion.trunkage said:
I don't think this counts as a "good part."Shadowstar38 said:
How you feel about the MCU aside, I'd argue that its influence has been negative because of two key reasons:
1) Because of the MCU, every studio under the sun wanted to build their own cinematic universe. How many people have actually succeeded? Has the cinema landscape been improved by it? The MCU can't be held accountable for the failure of other studios in of itself, but if we're evaluating the knock-on effects, I'd argue that it's easily a net negative for film.
2) This is less to do with the MCU, and more to do with Disney, but the MCU's under Disney, so I'm going to point out Disney's monopoly on the industry, what with its purchase of Fox. Then there's also Disney +, which looks set to dominate the streaming industry, or at least act as a serious rival to Netflix. I've seen a number of articles on this, exploring the effects of Disney's stranglehold on US film, but point is, I'd argue that lack of competition isn't good in the creation of art. I mean, just look at this year, where Disney can make a shot-for-shot remake of the Lion King, have it bereft of any soul...and still have it make over a billion dollars.
Of all the issues in the world, the cinemascape ranks fairly low for me, but over the last decade, the film industry has shifted, and I'd argue not for the better.
Game of Thrones was also a concept of the decade. But y'know what's kinda funny? The final season has got a total of 9 acting nominations in the 71st Emmy Awards (the show takes place in four weeks). Of course one for Writing too. Three for Direction and one for the series itself.
Award shows, amirite? Those smug farts...
Award shows, amirite? Those smug farts...
I dunno, ever since the 90's I haven't really felt like there's any real distinct personality to the 2000's, at least compared to them. Nothing like the, "YO DUDE! Everything is totally radical right?" of the 90's since then.
I suppose that is in it's own way an example of how the internet and the massive communication explosion has homogenized the personality of these time periods.
I suppose that is in it's own way an example of how the internet and the massive communication explosion has homogenized the personality of these time periods.
I kind of wonder if there's a counterpart to you in the 90s saying the exact same thing about the 90s. I don't think you can really stereotype a decade until you're a good few years past that decadeSpecter Von Baren said:
Eh, normally we don't get a big event right before or right after the start of a decade to define it. Sometimes you get 9/11 to bring in the 00s or WW2 to end the 30s (or Queen Victoria dying to bring in the previous 00s).
OTOH, if Britain falls apart and the US gets that new civil war they've been after in 2020, by comparison we'll get something to call the 10's.
OTOH, if Britain falls apart and the US gets that new civil war they've been after in 2020, by comparison we'll get something to call the 10's.
This decade is definitely the decade of "social media" or the "Internet me". All kind of people and stuff that in the previous decade stayed away from social media or Internet in general went full online. Of course because the Internet is an unchecked place where the most vocal and visible wins, idiocy has spread like a wildfire in the Amazon forest.
Assigning "eras" to actual decades is awkward, because history does not work so neatly.
The past 2-3 years are very different from the 5 or 6 that came before.
Anything past the first Brexit vote seems like it's in a completely different era entirely.
And with the madness that's going on in the past year (hell the past month) alone, the only thing that's similar to the era before it is "The rich are still getting richer at everyone else's expense".
The past 2-3 years are very different from the 5 or 6 that came before.
Anything past the first Brexit vote seems like it's in a completely different era entirely.
And with the madness that's going on in the past year (hell the past month) alone, the only thing that's similar to the era before it is "The rich are still getting richer at everyone else's expense".
This is the closest thing I've seen to something that cohesively covers the last decade.Tireseas said:
The 10?s could be considered the decade of information toxicity. There is no absolute truth anymore, as it is distorted, buried or spun into something else, whether for personal gain or simply being easier for the people to digest. It matters not being plebs or the powers that be.
But that is another symptom of a bigger problem, which is people simply don?t like being told what they don?t want to hear, especially if it is the truth. The more power you have, the more you can make it go away. For everyone else, it?s simply become acceptable to live in a bubble of ignorance and denial, as a sense of personal responsibility has also been lost in the midst of it all.
Basically, we?ve been steadily creating our very own custom shitheap of a society by losing track of basic intangible tenets of life. If only everyone just learned the Golden Rule and adhered to it through thick and thin.
But that is another symptom of a bigger problem, which is people simply don?t like being told what they don?t want to hear, especially if it is the truth. The more power you have, the more you can make it go away. For everyone else, it?s simply become acceptable to live in a bubble of ignorance and denial, as a sense of personal responsibility has also been lost in the midst of it all.
Basically, we?ve been steadily creating our very own custom shitheap of a society by losing track of basic intangible tenets of life. If only everyone just learned the Golden Rule and adhered to it through thick and thin.