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Tay Zonday
@tayzonday
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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Trigs
@trigs
I would say we've just started including what were previously considered externalities in the general perception of economic stability. Everyone that was doing well before now feels more of the insecurity that was the entirety of reality for these previously excluded groups. The whole driver of the "downclassing" of the 90's was disillusionment of the pretense that the level of economic stability being enjoyed by those on top was fairly earned. Better to be voluntarily poor and ethical than well-off at the expense of others. This was the new meta.
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kripcat.eth 🎩
@kripcat.eth
Novel take. Though I struggle to accept that anyone “earns” their place anymore now than they did in the 90s. The lottery of birth and genetics combined with the lottery of happenstance is the real Sorting Hat behind the curtain. People just use the idea of meritocracy to justify their position in society.
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