Dear Twitter algorithm spirits - I regret engaging with the hipster / โstomp clapโ / millennial discourse
I was there so I was curious and enjoyed reminiscing, but please, make it stop
Let people enjoy whatever music they enjoy ๐๐ผ
Iโm not going to co-sign the unbridled hate boomers get on here.
The first post-WWII generation was the first one to have to deal with the new US empireโs enormous propaganda machine, and likely weโll find out the first to really deal with more direct NHI govโt interference.
@johnamonaco@Dubucrat Lmao when I moved down to MD (from Morris County NJ) this was the biggest shock. I get so excited now every time I see an Italian last name (itโs fairly rare)
Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.
@AhQFish Interesting! I admit Iโm not very familiar with postulates - but it sounds like itโs connecting the self-evidentiary manner of oneโs own experiences in discovering/identifying underlying truths or principles or fundamentals?
@AhQFish In addition to language Iโd also add music! music is math that most people love, but are unaware of how proportion drives harmony, and how musical โshapesโ (chords, progressions) drive emotional expression and narrative
@AhQFish The math I wish I had gotten excited about earlier is geometry. It felt like rote memorization to me then, and it wasnโt as fun as solving algebra problems to me. But geometry is everywhere to see, and essential to beauty and art, and itโs a shame itโs taught so abstractly!
@3rd_abraham@mysticinthemoon Itโs a provocative claim for sure, and many of the Greek heroes for example (or Gilgamesh) feel like early archetypes of individualism to me. But the Jesus narrative is a wild departure in its claim that everyday people could connect with and embody the divine.
Phew might have to log off entirely to not get swept up in generational warfare algorithms this week lol
Folks - we all have to work together to make this better, closing ranks and/or dumping on other generations does zero to advance those efforts