I love that he uses Steven Universe / Gumball / Cal Arts as one of his first examples. That art style and shows like Steven Universe have always given me pedo vibes.
We need a new golden age of animation for kids and young adults like the 90s era superhero cartoons, that teach kids to stand against tyranny, not stand for trannies.
Yooo for real. Long before this culture war blew wide open to critical mass I always got mad lesbo "it's OK if I touch your no-no's" groomer vibes from Steven universe.
That entire aesthetic is the visual equivalent of an electric minivan handing out candy. Mostly just limp dick "adult" males that love that shit. And Big Mouth on Netflix is a million times worse.
I'm partial to Batman: The Animated Series. And the original Teen Titans. The episodes with Mad Mod are eerily "similar" to the story of Jimmy Saville. Makes me wonder if the animators were trying to say something with those two shows.
This is a great thread. While reading, it finally struck me as to what this time in history reminds me of.... It is the exact same empty feeling I get when I happen to stumble across a McMansion. Not so long ago these behemoths were ever-popular and widely desired - the bigger, the better. Most of these homes were critically flawed architecturally, but those flaws were over-looked due to the sheer size and gaudy opulence. At first glance, these mansions were a signal of wealth; that the person living in them had achieved the American Dream and were envied by many. Lots of McMansions were thrown up in the 90s and this could be why I associate it with the beginning of this faux-culture's collapse. If you looked closer then, you could see it, but it is especially apparent now. These beasts of homes were likely occupied by someone living beyond their means. This fact, coupled with the sad truth that many of these homes were built outside of code, lent them impossible to maintain. It was simply too expensive to keep up the illusion of luxury. Overtime they became stale, washed-up eye-sores of a once burgeoning mansion market and their bypassed flaws grew into major malfunctions for all to see. These homes flooded the real estate market during the housing crash of the late 2000s and those that survived demolition fell into foreclosure. With our cultural-societal trajectory, it feel like the masses are finally seeing the particle board behind the veneer. Many are abandoning the McMansion for a smaller, better quality abode and are doing so gleefully.
They were STILL building subdivisions of these here in southern NY not many years ago (and may still be, but I haven't noticed). The standard practice was to bulldoze, completely, all vegetation, to create a lifeless, but easy to build on tract, and then put up the box houses. I don't think the ones they built here in NY could even take a strong tropical storm. We recently bought a house built in 1955. Other than the non-grounded outlets I am replacing, it is very well built and is in a neighborhood where houses were built with minimal tree removal (which is getting to be a problem now because the trees are huge and reaching the end of their lives!). I never could stand those subdivisions where just about every house looks the same and are built almost within arms reach of neighbors. The subdivision we are in probably has 300-400 houses, and I don't think any two are the same, and lots are at least 1/4 acre, with most closer to 1/2 acre, and many wetland/forest areas are scattered throughout, so it's not an endless stretch of houses.
I think it's pretty funny when you see comments to articles about some Republican switching to the Democrat party; they are full of people saying how RINOs are the real Republicans, and that Trump supporters are traitors/fascists, or whatever term they want to throw.
I love that he uses Steven Universe / Gumball / Cal Arts as one of his first examples. That art style and shows like Steven Universe have always given me pedo vibes.
We need a new golden age of animation for kids and young adults like the 90s era superhero cartoons, that teach kids to stand against tyranny, not stand for trannies.
HeeMan.
GI Joe & Thundercats were right there for me.
Yooo for real. Long before this culture war blew wide open to critical mass I always got mad lesbo "it's OK if I touch your no-no's" groomer vibes from Steven universe.
That entire aesthetic is the visual equivalent of an electric minivan handing out candy. Mostly just limp dick "adult" males that love that shit. And Big Mouth on Netflix is a million times worse.
Yep I grew up on 80's cartoons like Thundercats and MOTU. Watching the crap they push on kids today makes me want to gouge my eyes out.
Tom & Jerry classics are still the best.
I'm partial to Batman: The Animated Series. And the original Teen Titans. The episodes with Mad Mod are eerily "similar" to the story of Jimmy Saville. Makes me wonder if the animators were trying to say something with those two shows.
Me too. The contrast between current Teen Titans and the 2000’s Teen Titans is its own commentary on societal shifts, IMO.
I hadn’t made the Mad Mod / Jimmy Seville connection, but that is interesting!
This is a great thread. While reading, it finally struck me as to what this time in history reminds me of.... It is the exact same empty feeling I get when I happen to stumble across a McMansion. Not so long ago these behemoths were ever-popular and widely desired - the bigger, the better. Most of these homes were critically flawed architecturally, but those flaws were over-looked due to the sheer size and gaudy opulence. At first glance, these mansions were a signal of wealth; that the person living in them had achieved the American Dream and were envied by many. Lots of McMansions were thrown up in the 90s and this could be why I associate it with the beginning of this faux-culture's collapse. If you looked closer then, you could see it, but it is especially apparent now. These beasts of homes were likely occupied by someone living beyond their means. This fact, coupled with the sad truth that many of these homes were built outside of code, lent them impossible to maintain. It was simply too expensive to keep up the illusion of luxury. Overtime they became stale, washed-up eye-sores of a once burgeoning mansion market and their bypassed flaws grew into major malfunctions for all to see. These homes flooded the real estate market during the housing crash of the late 2000s and those that survived demolition fell into foreclosure. With our cultural-societal trajectory, it feel like the masses are finally seeing the particle board behind the veneer. Many are abandoning the McMansion for a smaller, better quality abode and are doing so gleefully.
They were STILL building subdivisions of these here in southern NY not many years ago (and may still be, but I haven't noticed). The standard practice was to bulldoze, completely, all vegetation, to create a lifeless, but easy to build on tract, and then put up the box houses. I don't think the ones they built here in NY could even take a strong tropical storm. We recently bought a house built in 1955. Other than the non-grounded outlets I am replacing, it is very well built and is in a neighborhood where houses were built with minimal tree removal (which is getting to be a problem now because the trees are huge and reaching the end of their lives!). I never could stand those subdivisions where just about every house looks the same and are built almost within arms reach of neighbors. The subdivision we are in probably has 300-400 houses, and I don't think any two are the same, and lots are at least 1/4 acre, with most closer to 1/2 acre, and many wetland/forest areas are scattered throughout, so it's not an endless stretch of houses.
Still building them at every shorepoint in Jersey
Critical mass
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Try again. It's worth it.
The linked article by the same author at https://americanmind.org/salvo/accidental-revolution/ is also quite good.
A deserving read.
Damn, that shit was on par with Aristotle. Fantastic thread, thanks!!!!
I think it's pretty funny when you see comments to articles about some Republican switching to the Democrat party; they are full of people saying how RINOs are the real Republicans, and that Trump supporters are traitors/fascists, or whatever term they want to throw.