I remember liking Juno, and it could have been worse, but how a movie with the line "I guess normalcy isn't our style" didn't get crucified is beyond me.
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The mid-noughties were a time of The Mighty Boosh, Zooey Deschanel and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Everything was "random", "quirky" and "kooky". It was Hell.
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It's difficult to overstate how much more ferociously political cultural discourse has become. Back then "scepticism" was goofy guys in glasses talking about homeopaths and now it's people with names like The Nietzschean Neckbeard debating whether women are human.
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Replying to @PereGrimmer
I mean compared to the mid noughties. Also to the nineties though. Not to the late sixties.
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Hm, maybe. Roissy in DC (Heartise precursor) had started by 2007, The Game was published in 2005, and MRA, MGTOW, etc. were already pretty well-developed by then (going back to the 90s at least - usenet) but maye not signal-boosted. There was also lots of riots, etc., but many...
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The wave of American special-interest media swerving left (along the lines of, say, UK music journalism) started around 2009-2011 and blew up around 2012-2014.
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