Wish I had a time machine so I could go back and help Hitler strategize.
I wish I could save him in some sort of time machine
James Thompson
Grayson Turner
The mistake of Generation X is that they took a lot of bohemian and 'subversive' / edgy impulses and features - at a degree that contradicts the popular - that should have remained the province of a bohemian minority and made it mainstream, in effect neutralizing and forever destroying them in that edgy/anti form. Which I suppose was necessary because it was a myth anyways, based in the Marxist paradox, of simultaniously seeing oneself as the edgy subversive outsider eternal-loser-underdog, and yet at the same time trying to win and become the establishment and new order. Eventually some superficial element and form of this does get integrated into the order which becomes a cringey mockery / embarrassment for the self-regarding 'underdogs' (hence, Kurt killing himself in shame) while flooding the mainstream with a new norm of meaningless edge and hedonic nihilism as universal consumerist model but with any of the thrill or subversive eroticism utterly drained. Which is why left-liberalism as model of the cool and sexy and new can never work now, it's beyond the norm and it's fucking mind-numbingly dull.
Lucas Hughes
Like you would be of any use to him.
James Brown
Fuck you. I would have been one of Hitler's top men.
Parker Ortiz
>what is occam's razor
Xavier Lee
Say that to Billie Eilish fans.
John Scott
if only you knew how good things really are
Adrian Thompson
Hey you guys remember Antlers - Hospice?
Brandon Turner
I think the problem you’re describing was caused lesser so by the artists themselves but by the marketing and labels behind them, or by other commercially motivated artists that tried to appropriate these sensibilities towards a mainstream audience in a way that created a slippery slope for the quality of what you describe. It’s a shame that post grunge happened but I don’t think that Kurt et al should be explicitly blamed for it as much as what surrounded him/them
I read like a quarter of your post and typed this
Jackson Baker
In what way was GenX about "trying to win and become the establishment and new order?"
Do you have any specific examples?