Fuck it, here's a new rule:
Oct. 15th, 2023 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resoluteWe cannot say something -- a meme, a show, a song, a work of art, a dress, what the fuck ever -- "embodies" the spirit/vibe/soul/aesthetic/wtfever of any time period closer than 20 years ago.
Sure, fine, say something is very Y2K, whatevs. Say something is the spirit of the early 00s. I don't care.
But 2015 is ONLY EIGHT YEARS AGO. We cannot POSSIBLY as a humanity have any sort of distance from 2015 required to assess its gestalt, its ouvre, its giss.
Twenty years. The length of time it takes for a grown-ass adult to have been born AFTER THE TIME IN QUESTION. Two decades.
New rule.
Sure, fine, say something is very Y2K, whatevs. Say something is the spirit of the early 00s. I don't care.
But 2015 is ONLY EIGHT YEARS AGO. We cannot POSSIBLY as a humanity have any sort of distance from 2015 required to assess its gestalt, its ouvre, its giss.
Twenty years. The length of time it takes for a grown-ass adult to have been born AFTER THE TIME IN QUESTION. Two decades.
New rule.
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Date: 2023-10-17 05:18 pm (UTC)Re: FWIW
Date: 2023-10-17 07:02 pm (UTC)