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Is it just me or has this been a pretty (culturally)****ty decade? (pg. 3)
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| Leon Trotsky |
| quote: | Originally posted by Project-K
Not until every working man also gets a puppy. |
I like your thinking. |
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| biznology |
you listed every previous decade. so your original post was a FAIL imo.
plus it will be remembered for bush ing everything up, culturally or not. at least the music should get better after a significantly trying time, but i imagine that Soulja Boy will end up losing out the most| |
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| DJ Damerchi |
decade of war +1
economic crisis will be remembered as well.
there have been big movements and revolutions and such, just look at what is going on in thailand right now.
50 cent akon etc, superstar stadium djs, youtube, myspace, facebook, forums, alot of other online shiat. somali pirates...i dont know just winging. |
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| Nrg2Nfinit |
| quote: | Originally posted by bas
I dig that belts over shirts look. |
i think thats from the 80s |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Leon Trotsky
The only reason this decade has been less than extraordinary is because you have failed to make it memorable. |
I'm sorry, Trolltsky, but this decade ruled! |
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| Arbiter |
| On balance, yes, I'd say it has been culturally lacking compared to previous decades. Cinema has taken the worst hit -- when is the last time they released a good movie? I'm serious; I honestly can't remember. The music has been generally uninspired as well. I'm not gay enough to comment on fashion, but I can say that unless royally ing up practically everything is a social movement, we haven't done much in that respect. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
On balance, yes, I'd say it has been culturally lacking compared to previous decades. Cinema has taken the worst hit -- when is the last time they released a good movie? I'm serious; I honestly can't remember. The music has been generally uninspired as well. I'm not gay enough to comment on fashion, but I can say that unless royally ing up practically everything is a social movement, we haven't done much in that respect. |
That is true, but you're looking on the wrong direction.
Thanks to the internet, I think society is more culturally fragmented than ever, giving individuals the chance to pursue their interests regardless of any major trend, for example. That's why I think there was nothing spectacular unless you really dig deep enough to find something. Not to mention that fact the rise of other cultural centres all around the world, giving people more innovative ideas than those found in the US, for example. |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
That is true, but you're looking on the wrong direction.
Thanks to the internet, I think society is more culturally fragmented than ever, giving individuals the chance to pursue their interests regardless of any major trend, for example. That's why I think there was nothing spectacular unless you really dig deep enough to find something. Not to mention that fact the rise of other cultural centres all around the world, giving people more innovative ideas than those found in the US, for example. |
since when was the us a cultural center though? unless by culture you mean pop/trash culture? |
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| LeopoldStotch |
| well thanks to the internet, we have made the "Myspace" pose a global cultural phenomenon. :( |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
since when was the us a cultural center though? unless by culture you mean pop/trash culture? |
Since the end of WWII, mostly. And, no, I'm not talking just about pop culture, but science, philosophy and the arts in general. Also, "trash" culture? I wouldn't be so harsh to a country that produced both Chomsky and the Belleville trio. |
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| SkyHigh |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
decade of war
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Cool name for a movie..:) |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Project-K
I was having a conversation with a friend the other day about how uninteresting 00-2010 will have been as a decade. The 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s all had their own style, their own movements, their own music. You can hear a song and tell "oh this is so 90s", or "this is so 70s", just by the chords being used, the sounds of the instruments... You can do the same looking at how people were dressed, or how they talked.
Sure, maybe it's just harder to tell because we're still living in it, but it seems to me like this last decade has been nothing but uninspired rehash of previous decades. No huge generation gaps, major social movements, no definitive fashions. :conf: |
Social movement = massive migration among youth to online "communities" of various sorts, Facebook and MySpace and blogs and boards.
Generation gap = gap between those who use the new technologies extensively and competently, and those who either can't or don't want to.
This does look a bit lame in comparison to trends of previous decades that were more grounded in the "material" world. But if I had to guess, I think that future cultural historians would recognize this as the decade when the Internet became truly entrenched with a new generation that grew up using it from an early age and took it for granted. |
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