idk... One of the silliest things Virginia Woolf every wrote (I think in 1925?) was that "on or about December 1910, human nature changed." It seems particularly silly because you really could try to be precise in this way if you started in 1914, but 1910 all that happened is that there was an art show (mostly of French stuff) in London and some pretty good novels were published. The vibes shifted, but there's something perverse about her dating the shift to 1910 (partly this is just her prejudice against Henry James).
What happened in the 2010s? We still don't have enough perspective to know. If it was a matter of genius being repressed by dumb politics (of which there was plenty, it expanded and now it is contracting a bit), I'd be pleased. I fear that we're all just becoming ever more mediocre, with dumb politics serving either as the justification or the excuse.
Must be on another planet if you think woke-ism is giving way to some form of ‘gregarious’ social cohesion
idk... One of the silliest things Virginia Woolf every wrote (I think in 1925?) was that "on or about December 1910, human nature changed." It seems particularly silly because you really could try to be precise in this way if you started in 1914, but 1910 all that happened is that there was an art show (mostly of French stuff) in London and some pretty good novels were published. The vibes shifted, but there's something perverse about her dating the shift to 1910 (partly this is just her prejudice against Henry James).
What happened in the 2010s? We still don't have enough perspective to know. If it was a matter of genius being repressed by dumb politics (of which there was plenty, it expanded and now it is contracting a bit), I'd be pleased. I fear that we're all just becoming ever more mediocre, with dumb politics serving either as the justification or the excuse.
Brilliant. I had never thought of 1968-2012 in those terms. The anxiety at the end hit home.
still here