After premium mediocre and domestic cozy, spidey sense is tingling around some sort of blue collar vibe.
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Waldenponding was a false start by people still trapped in PM and DC. This will be an approach mode, not retreat. Very Online. My spidey sense may be compromised a bit by the fact that I’m into this mood myself but I think that’s effect not cause. The mood got me.
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There will be a zoomer balladeer kinda like Bruce Springsteen updated for Tiktok sea-shanty mood
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Maker movement 2.0 will be a side effect but for most participants it will remain a surface aesthetic/ethos. Consumerism with a bit of a producerist edge. Semi-home-made.
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Zoomeren and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
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Kinda feel like calling this shantycore or wellerman or something That sea shanty moment was brief but cut deep somehow
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Woodworking is I think too waldenponding hipster millennial, a bit too cringe performative. I suspect this will be self-consciously high-tech/low-abstraction. Like embedded electronics maybe.
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I think high cost and geopolitics will put a damper on this even if the impulse is there, which I don’t think it is. But I suspect a domestic version will happen within countries or cultural regions.https://twitter.com/DanielleFong/status/1394870422102028290 …
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maybe, though there’s a major cost of living arbitrage to be harnessed
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I think that will be eroded by inflation volatility and rising air travel prices due to climate stuff
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re: climate stuff i hope so, otherwise someone’s got to get going on that ultra high energy density energy storage for aircraft... 
too late for the present moment for sure
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