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Tay Zonday
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I grew up around mostly-white suburban teens in the 1990s. Punk, grunge and alternative rock felt like rejection of bucolic “Leave It To Beaver” and “Family Ties” prosperity. Many of my peers wanted to jump DOWN social classes. It’s like poverty was a Leni Riefenstahl aesthetic to reclaim denied authenticity.
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kripcat.eth 🎩
@kripcat.eth
Reminds me of that take on Office Space/Fight Club that, at the time these films were capturing a rejection of the inauthentic sterile meaninglessness of a 9-5 office job; but now many people would be very happy to have a stable job that affords them some measure of security, consumption and financial progression. Rejecting it seems trite and myopic. Almost like we’ve fallen down a peg or two on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, on aggregate, since the 90s.
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Robotandkid
@robotandkid
the "punk" that came out of that era always felt weird
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Monist 🎩🏳️🌈🫂
@monistmusic.eth
Yes. It turns out that it's a materially comfortable life, but completely devoid of any real meaning or experience. (Speaking as one of the people you're referring to who is definitely trying to get as far from the culture as possible 😅)
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