For some reason this video has an "MTV of decades past" feel and it is both wonderfully nostalgic and totally fitting with the subject matter.
@iamdanielamaya
3 ай бұрын
Looking back, it feels like the '80s and the '90s were a collective reaction to something, though I'm not entirely sure what that something was beyond the nebulous term "mainstream." You had alternative comedy (Vic and Bob / Mr. Show / Public Access TV), alternative music, and alternative politics. You were either into the mainstream (corporate garbage nicely packaged) or the alternative. This dichotomy guided politics. Like a John Hughes movie, you were either a jock or a nerd. The interesting thing about this generation is that they've grown up with what was once considered alternative now being mainstream. The lines that once existed, that defined a lot about Gen X, those no longer seem to exist (or are now very blurred).
@iamdanielamaya
3 ай бұрын
With Gen X it feels like the general reaction was against corporate pop culture. The choices that defined you were Nike or Converse, People magazine or a zine, Whitney Houston or some underground punk band. If each generation is an act of rebellion against their parents, then it seems this generation's act of rebellion is that they don't care as much about these choices. They'll wear Nikes, listen to Taylor Swift and be opposed to capitalism. Their focus is more centered on the actual problems in society as opposed to Gen X's largely superficial rebellion against mainstream pop culture.
@deepblack67
2 ай бұрын
Wow, that was really great, GenX here.
@elproject3343
3 ай бұрын
Not sure if I really got the message you guys tried to convey, but for what is worth 💯 for the effort.
@sublationmedia
3 ай бұрын
What message DID you get out of it?
@60oh
3 ай бұрын
Just discovered your channel and theres a new video. neat. i found you after watching an adam curtis documentary. i needed some further analysis and you did not disappoint
@sublationmedia
3 ай бұрын
Thanks! I'm glad you're finding these videos interesting!
@thekajalflaneur
3 ай бұрын
Which Curtis doc?
@60oh
3 ай бұрын
@@thekajalflaneur hyper normalisation :)
@alanabdollahzadeh
3 ай бұрын
Is this another video from Zer0 Books before it was wiped? Please keep uploading them, I regret not archiving the whole channel.
@sublationmedia
3 ай бұрын
Will do.
@michaelbrewer5307
3 ай бұрын
@@sublationmedia wait can you just do that? Besides time and effort I mean there aren’t restrictions?
@sublationmedia
3 ай бұрын
@@michaelbrewer5307 I was granted the rights to the videos but not the channel.
@AndrewTate2Prison
3 ай бұрын
Those things don't define Gen X. I'm not sure what defines "us" (1974) or if it's necessarily relevant. A good movement needs adults of all ages...there is wisdom in the elders and there is wisdom in young people who can see things in a new way. You gather all the info and process it and create the best revolutionary products.
@coolworx
3 ай бұрын
17:08 Hey.... It's the Kenosha Kickers! _Polka! Polka! Polka!_
@peternyc
3 ай бұрын
Philippe Aries showed us how education in the middle ages meant a child would spend time in the household of another family, learning their ways. Jacques Cousteau thought the best way for the capitalist bloc to come to peace with the communist bloc would be to do the same. This is true education for me. Learning to see the world through other people's eyes. Technical learning is important of course. But what the liberal arts claims it wants to achieve and what it actually achieves is the proof that books alone do not make the citizen. Empathy does.
@cropcircle5693
3 ай бұрын
I think hating Beck is more of a Gen X thing that liking him. I feel like Millennials are the ones who love him.
@damianalejandro6959
3 ай бұрын
Can't believe anyone not immediately identifying kiefer Sutherland as jack bauer.
@CyberDandy
3 ай бұрын
Time to watch Waterworld again
@DannyDanny-rn7ck
3 ай бұрын
Ban social impact bonds crypto and ESG
@KEITHHAYES001
3 ай бұрын
"I don't think that is the way it worked out is it." No, not the way things worked out, that's right. There was no 'After Ray-Gun'. WMD and patriotic lies, the world changed. I went to Pirate Bay and snagged Slacker. Does that make me an individualistic antisocial bourgeois anarchist? I'm watching it, only as far as the cafe. I will find out at the end if I am.
@peternyc
3 ай бұрын
I haven't watched the video (yet), but the topic is very important. It's tempting to think that youth is the necessary ingredient for social change. But I don't believe this. Youth want adventure and do things that provide relief from boredom and/or things that help them define themselves. Working people (and youth who know their future of low wage work) are the ones who scare the ownership class. I've probably said this before, but repealing the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 is what will scare the hell out of the capital owners. Shawn Fain, the president of the UAW, has made contract termination dates the same across the board for all new contracts in an effort to get around this gag law. All labor unions in the U.S. must put that same exact date on all new contracts going forward so that the pool of workers who are organized in a union can mobilize together. This is what the Taft-Hartley Act tried to prevent - mass mobilization. The U.S. is terrified of an organized working class. Young Americans protesting about Gaza are clowns. Where is the protest against homelessness? Against the U.S. slave minimum wage of $7.25/hr? Against no universal healthcare? Against all the horrible crimes against humanity the U.S. has committed since 1945? Nothing. Crickets. Young people in today's pop culture are narcissistic fools. What the Gaza protesters have done is cement the red vs. blue divide in the country. The function of the Gaza protests is to continue gridlock in the machine, and to keep the narrative about the national debt the same. The goal is fiscal austerity, which means massive wage cuts, massive loss of standards of living. What Reagan started was the appetizer. The real corporate fascism is about to begin once the balance of payments for the U.S. is subject to the same realities of the rest of the countries in the world. The next couple of years is going to be an attempt to use BLM and the Gaza protests as a mobilizing force for the conservatives. The average politician in Washington is too ignorant and too unimaginative to understand that the position the U.S. will be in is completely novel to modern America. No one living today has any experience with the trade issues that are about to come our way. The Beltway and its media machine aren't up for the heavy lifting that will be needed. So...things are going to break. What happens next is anyone's guess. I am pessimistic. The bratty children of the PMC aren't going to lead the way to socialism. We need Archie Bunkers to do it. A mass movement of Archie Bunkers who understand that they work to make their enemies rich. Then they roll over and push up the daisies. Sorry to rant. I know that people here understand and agree with some, most, or all of what I'm saying. I'll try to watch this video.
@MattAngiono
3 ай бұрын
Standing up against genocide doesn't make you a clown. Yes, there's plenty more to protest and be against in America, but that isn't a reason to take away any of the power of what they are doing. Homelessness has been around for our entire lives. I don't remember ANY generation really doing anything of substance about this. And that's not because we didn't care. What is to be done? In college, you're already put into extreme competition to get the grades that will lead to a career. There isn't a lot of room to settle sacrifice and change society. At least these kids have the courage to try. It's literally the opposite of narcissism. What is in it for them? Many are being expelled or even arrested. All to stop a genocide on the other side of the world. In Vietnam protests, there was a draft going on. Those are self serving because they didn't want to be sent to fight. But here, there's little benefit they receive. They are just appalled that this kind of slaughter is supported by the universities they are attending. That's courageous and to be commended, not demonized!
@DannyDanny-rn7ck
3 ай бұрын
What in the bleep are you telling these kids man You are making me terrified to send them to schools He is going to grow old well into his 50's at a minimum Laying that climate change Bs on them should be considered child abuse
@sublationmedia
3 ай бұрын
I don't think my kid's fear of climate change came from me.
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