DYLAN SMITH 🏂

Mass culture was definitely more intellectual until the invention of the radio or WWII or thereabouts. Just read a chapter of Gulliver's Travels dedicated to mocking Leibniz’s work in symbolic logic, and I find that alien enough that I can’t think of a workable modern analogy.

The concept of there being “real astrology”

Wrong. The hippies lost. If Woodstock was supposed to signal a change in consciousness, it was a complete failure: Nixon escalated in Vietnam; the left splintered into ever more irrelevant factions; and violence, not love, prevailed.

amber UIs are the next big thing

That's because Kant serves Christ and Hegel serves The Evil One.

Man was not meant to monitor this many situations.

It is kind of interesting: the East Coast magazine types are seemingly intelligent people, seemingly selected through very tight funnels -- great universities, great SAT scores, they can often think critically, follow long and established traditions of thought, etc. but here we are moving at breakneck pace through this unprecedented technological revolution which by any reasonable consensus has decent odds of literally ending biological life as we know it in all sorts of horrible ways, and all they can think about is that... prose is getting kinda worse on the way? That some writing sounds a little sloppier now? That they are not fans of the style? This is somehow their elephant in the room? What? Is this just what happens when you compound bad epistemic habits for decades? Functional paralysis in otherwise sane minds?

There is an enormous difference between older Zoomers (96-05) and younger Zoomers (06-10) that basically completely seperates the two entirely- old Zoomers grew up on a precensored Internet, Newgrounds, flash etc, while young zoomers grew up on a fully censored web.

It's funny how there's Gen Z and Zoomers and it's like culturally the A vs B divide What's the major difference between Gen Z and Zoomers? Zoomers have irony toxicity and are misanthropic, Gen Z is not