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the claim we are living in a post-post-modern world is something heard with enormous regularity among artistic folk. But is it a euphemism for " we haven't got a clue who we are?" What name will be given to us retrospectively by future generations is uncertain, what isn't is that it will be linked to globalism.
Although Post-Modernism isn't officially dead,, it died out circa the early to mid 90's with wider availability of internet and other forms of telecommunication. Arguably it was Satellite TV in the early 90's more than Internet that pushed us further in a globalist direction. From this point, in the UK, things became more 24/7 than they had from the mid 80's. The late Sir Jimmy Savile commented that as far as music channels went, too much of it killed a sense of gratification. Older generations gained what he dubbed a "weekly fix" from watching Top Of The Pops.
By the end of the 90's discontent with Globalist trends became apparent in popular culture. The movie Fight Club revived Punk attitudes, not in a "no future for you" or "we have the right to work" sense, but one of identity loss and peer pressure through consumerism. What was very Punk was the desire to destroy in response to it. Quite an unusual twist considering it was rebelling against a "too much availability" scenario as opposed to too little.
The Matrix, made in the same year, also voiced confusion brought about by globalism. Here, westerners are viewed as trapped in a concept reality world, where consumerism and self-importance leave the individual out of touch with their basic needs and mortality. Both films were clear in the belief that the backlash of high advancements in a society result is increased depression.
As seen in both examples, depression was dominant in age groups 30+, not the very young, who, born in the mid 80's and onwards would be less aware of the giant leap taken place. Not a big surprise is it to hear that the number of depressive and mental health cases has risen hugely in recent years involving people in their early 30's?
Disney's WALL-E years later highlighted the dangers of globalism by having two couch potato ladies sat side by side conversing in a virtual PC world, yet totally unaware of each other. Another reference to Plato's Cave like The Matrix? This may appear total fantasy, but it isn't; it's not unknown for folk to be sat in a pub or another place together conversing via iphones with people miles away, yet neglecting to have a more meaningful conversation with each other.
A subtle factor in western society, not always understood, is that it can only be kept intact by a greed culture imposed upon it's citizens. This reduces risk of abject poverty/very low standards of living on a wider scale. Revenue gained from such a system is necessary for essential services such as health and social security, but individuals suffer confusion or guilt from a selfish perspective for not achieving the idealisms consumerism puts about. The meanings of life in their most basic forms take second place to invented ones to promote spending. November to January is habitually the most active for consumer spending. The masses are pressurised to spend more than usual from Novemeber to late December, then onwards till January on themselves via the sales; and at the same time put down summer holiday deposits. Not much of an eye opener really to realise the budget is determined for the next year by The Treasury a short while after is it?. This period is clearly the biggest revenue grabber of the lot. So if the PM decides not to cancel Christmas, it isn't out of conscientiousness to spread joy to masses as much as avoiding political suicide.
It isn't fair to put blame entirely on consumerist's door though. One problem is creating identity in a world so much smaller by comparison. Again, Punk revived itself from imagined death in forms of Manga characters which have evolved into multi-national followings: Naruto and the pink haired Sakura are just two examples of how punk helped lead the way to vaster mainstream imagery, much different from it's humble street origins.
Hardly surprising Punk comes in a form of tartan Lolita in Japan now! Both manga and punk are now inextricably linked in shonen forms, with Manga's spiky haired origins more a historical factor than driving force.
Yet the inevitable outcome in the present scenario is that Westerners become increasingly Japanese in their tastes, while the Japanese become more western. A common term for such attitudes in the far east is "BANANAS" - Yellow on the outside, but white on the in. By that comparison though many westerners are "boiled eggs"!
But the unavoidable scenario is that the first world, as it arrogantly calls itself, is now an A&E generation: anywhere and everywhere or anything and everything. Fashion wise the situation is impossible as so much awareness and availability causes too many feasible directions. What was dubbed fashion in the past, is now merely style or a style which the indvidual feels most comfortable with. A curious factor attached to this is the rise in number of vintage shops since the mid 90's, and the rising prices in high street charity ones. What wouldn't have gone for more than £2 some years ago, can expect to be worth £10 whether in a smelly bundle or not!
Compact camera that i've bought for Xmas gift (and more than probably will be borrowing it from time to time :)
Jon's '86 LS2 Porsche 944 - We removed the stock engine and put in a LS2 and boy, does it ever look amazing!
Campbell Automotive supplied the all aluminum LS2 engine with Magna Charger 402 cu in with 705HP
Tremec 5 Speed
Jon's '86 LS2 Porsche 944 - We removed the stock engine and put in a LS2 and boy, does it ever look amazing!
Jon's '86 LS2 Porsche 944 - We removed the stock engine and put in a LS2 and boy, does it ever look amazing!
1958 LS2 fuel injected C1 Corvette. An absolute beauty. Even the engine cover is painted in the body colour.
2009 Cruise for the Cure, Maple, Ontario.
Jon's '86 LS2 Porsche 944 - We removed the stock engine and put in a LS2 and boy, does it ever look amazing!