Totally agree. I think the defining feature of post 2010's culture is a lack of cynicism. So many quasi-religious zealots running around, wether their god is feminism, immigration, or MAGA, they totally lack introspection or criticality. Fucking sucks.
It's interesting how Gen y's/Gen x's glorify the 1990s today...
Zachary Ross
Grayson Turner
>gangsta rap was the first time disenfranchised poor people had a chance to speak about their experiences
correction: it was the first time the urban poor had a chance to describe their experiences without requiring a background in music or access to musical instruments.
Obviously, there were many earlier avenues for musical expression prior to this (blues, for example).
Lucas Parker
Maybe in Finland, but the 60's is when mass immigration started in the USA, so most people on this board won't give it a passing grade. The 50's were kind of an optimum point of high wages, high opportunity, low wealth gap, low crime rate, and few foreigners - a true golden age for America.
Zachary Turner
What the fuck? Have you never listened to blues music, dude?
Blues and bluegrass was like gangsta rap, but without glorifying being a cunt. It's absolutely dope.
Gangsta rap has some decent music, but in terms of framing poor people's experiences, it's fucking terrible.
Jeremiah Brown
the perfect example of this is Clueless, where the main girl starts the relief fund for Pismo Beach or whatever after some earthquake and it is very satirical but everyone is all on board with her campy stupid fundraiser. You could say you were a moral vegan a bunch and people would just laugh about it and you wouldn't be really... taken seriously almost. like you said, blase about everything. Ended after 9/11
Tyler Jackson
Of course you think that if you're a Kevin like jock or other kind of normalfag. What were you even doing watching it? It wasn't made for you, it was made for people like me who saw how shallow you dumdums were and are.
Nicholas Morris
Unironically, I think Yas Forums is one of the last bastions of cynicism. It's one of the reasons I love this place. If you're too passionate about your little theory, you'll almost always be called a retarded faggot
>and that's just how I like it
Benjamin Torres
in some episodes, yeah, but for the most part she was the straight man to the buffoonery of the others
the only place she was consistently the butt of the joke was in romance
Cooper Sullivan
It was the last decade when expressing love and happiness to find a good partner was celebrated in music and general pop culture. Anyone else noticed this?
Jaxson Roberts
I agree with you and the other guy too. Daria is the protagonist, but it's made clear that her cynicism doesn't get her anywhere. It doesn't make her happy, either. She's completely anhedonic.
Contrast with Jane, who shares her worldview but has a profound passion for something. Daria is a tragic character, unable to really relate to the people around her or to find something she loves in the world.
Little wonder so many of us, ironically, fell in love with her completely.