Re:Forget spaceships; I just want my music
by taylodl on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @11:52AM
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Photo albums and music recordings didn’t even exist until the 20th century. What did we do for tens of thousands of years before that?
Told stories.
And what is TikTok and Instagram at the end of the day? The modern means for telling stories.
The 20th century was an aberration of human history. We don’t need to cling to it.
Re:Forget spaceships; I just want my music
by jerf on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @02:56PM
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Told stable stories, generally in a stable culture.
The 20th century is indeed an abberation; the 21st a bigger one.
Re:Forget spaceships; I just want my music
by taylodl on Thursday December 14, 2023 @09:45AM
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I suspect what you're calling a stable story are the myths, legends, and lore that comprise a culture?
If so, I would argue those are cultural stories.
I was thinking more along the lines of family stories, personal stories, friends stories and things like that.
If not, then what is a stable story?
Today.
Young people being fine with that when they are still in flux is not a new thing. A 21-year-old being nostalgic is almost the basis for a comedy sketch more than a serious concern. I'm not yet convinced they've broken any human patterns when they're still fitting fairly comfortably into the existing patterns on that. If anything I'd bet they're going to discover a larger desire for a foundation than anyone else because the "default" ones have been ripped away and they can't just sort of settle into an existing one easily.