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Farm Frenzy posted:ppl make fun of gen xers for not impacting the world but weve spent the last 20 years being forced to endlessly relive their childhoods I feel like you're sort of right but it's not really our gen x childhoods you're being forced to relive. Yes there are a few 80's nostalgia pieces around but I think in reality American culture is stuck somewhere between the late 90's and 2001 and it hasn't really moved a whole lot since then. And because it's America it just gets more refined and more intense. I think 9/11 stunted everything and we are never going to be able to move past it as a society.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:The end of the Cold War dropped American culture into a weird kind of stasis because capitalism is evil and will kill the world, but Americans can’t imagine an alternative to it. I agree. In the mind of everyone in America 45 and older there is simply no alternative to capitalism and in fact the more extreme the capitalism the better. It's weird to think that the Cold War may have actually been a moderating force in American society. SickZip posted:im extremely skeptical of claims that 9/11 actually changed the trajectory of America as opposed to 9/11 itself being just another symptom of the same underlying process that hollowed out American culture. Of course it's impossible to say what the present day would be like without the 9/11 event but it seems like that really broke a lot of people's brains and really instilled a deep fear into the American psyche unlike anything else ever had.
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Carl Von Awesomwitz posted:Hogan's Heroes is actually real good: Thanks for this thoughtful breakdown of a weird show. Don’t forget Bob Crane (Hogan) was murdered and even though there was an arrest and trial like 15 years later the suspect was acquitted so his murder remains unsolved.
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