4/And that got me thinking about culture, and how the internet and globalization homogenize culture and art and fashion and ideas.
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5/In the 90s and 00s, the internet and globalization opened up all the secret places. Foreign cultures, previously obscure subcultures.
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6/It was this incredible, one-time bonanza. And it happened to coincide with my youth. I got used to feeling like the world was exploding.
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7/Now we've mostly harvested all the subcultures. Any crazy new subculture will get a Vice special and Reddit thread in a year or so.
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8/And country cultures are homogenizing and internationalizing. Hollywood is cookie-cutter CG fluff made for international audiences.
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9/This doesn't mean the end of creativity or anything crazy like that. Individual creators are as imaginitive and skilled and fresh as ever.
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10/I'm NOT making the argument that the internet stifles innovation, as Neal Stephenson claimed:https://www.wired.com/2011/10/stephenson-innovation-starvation/ …
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11/But something has changed. You can't go hide out in a subculture or foreign country anymore. Everything is transparent, laid bare.
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12/And the bonanza of the 90s and 00s is something we will never see again. The world can only come together like that once.
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13/I don't know if the end of subculture and foreign-ness is bad or good. But I sure will miss having my mind blown every other day. (end)
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at least for a little while the internet will continue to spawn subcultures too, but yeah they're discovered as soon as they become a thing.
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Replying to @csilverandgold
We harvest too quickly. Maybe the freakout over cultural appropriation is partly about that?
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Replying to @Noahpinion
eh. Most of the cultural appropriation talk I see is about old historical parts of culture. But I see where you're coming from.
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