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When I look around at the world around me, I don’t necessarily think it’s coming to an end, more so I think it needs to come to an end. I don’t mean this in a gloomy way as if there is nothing left to live for. There are plenty of things to enjoy as an individual. But as a society it’s almost as if we’re done.
Most generations look at their past and glamorize it, but consider that I am a part of this generation–that I am looking back at nothing really, at least nothing that I have experienced–maybe I want to believe it was better, but I don’t think it’s that. And I don’t even necessarily think the past was better so much as it was still new then…
We do live in a Post-Modern world, everything was something else before, everything is a rehashing or a retelling… how much more can we improve upon what we already have? The fact of the matter remains that in popular culture, we’re doing the opposite. We’re bastardizing what was once good, in terms of movies, music, even books.
How many vampire romances, how many Saw movies, how many samples of Tainted Love is it going to take? It feels as though anything with artistic merit has become obsolete and only the things that are re-done ironically are the things that are considered good.
I often wonder if this is it? If there is some kind of finite capacity to the human condition? That the way the world is now, is the only way it can be because that is the way we see it. That are minds are only capable of producing things based on a certain way of thinking, a certain way of seeing…
It wasn’t that long ago where things were still new. Look at the way people dressed in the 1800s, the 1900s, the 50s’, 60s’, 70s’, 80s’,90s’.
It was almost as if after the 90s, around the time we got the Internet that things started to get really fucking redundant. It’s almost as if this thing that created a unified world, that put us in contact with each other, that gave many of us this access to knowledge, unified our minds as well.
Nothing is really new when we’re all exposed to the same stimuli. The amount of exposure we all have to one another has changed so much, twitter, facebook, perez hilton. The people, celebrities who seemed so distance before, seem much closer and we are much closer to one another now. Even if we never have to leave the house.
Isolation breeds originality because isolation prevents influence. The Internet seems to have ripped us apart physically, but united us mentally in this strange way. In a way where all of our dirty secrets come out, in a way where we all digg up what’s cool and bury what’s not. Where we get to decide the way the world works.
Many of us, at least in the modern world, experience the world in very similar ways, we can all be reduced to a statistic, a neurosis with a specific pattern of behavior, a Top Ten Lists of Cult Classics, our reactions to 2 Girls 1 Cup. There’s nothing that exists that can’t be seen by millions of people at once. We’ve homogenized ourselves.
Maybe it’s not that nothing is new, it’s that we all think of the same thing at the same moment?
People, when stripped down to primal, basic needs aren’t that different to begin with. Now of course we still have strides to make, gays can’t married, organized religion still exists, we demand free chicken…
However God, prejudice and self-entitlement are nothing new and I don’t think these things will change and once we get rid of them we’ll be even more unified, even more similar.
We’ll get better iPhones and maybe even a hover craft.
But in 20 years, 100 years, 300 years, we’ll still be wearing skinny jeans, and watching a remake of The Hottie and The Nottie because that’s what we want and that’s how supply and demand works.