"2007[1] positivism[2][14] …" (-tba-) [42][32][43]

When youve got this urge to yell for/from full lungs "wtf happened to Old Web!", watching as people share their most vile, insane bs publicly , at times in full names, proudly, and they mean it... (NPC)

All those things that were "forbidden" on interwebs, in Olden days... Full names, private photos, talking to randos, and celebrating own stupidity, when i look, it seems. (anti-punk)

And fake-good 90s, 00s-10s critical thinking skills lessons. One ear in, other out(?)… "I find it kind of funny, a funny kind of sad", how opinions change like that, more so, without second thought. Path of least resistance innit…

Privacy gone, but you wanted that. If no one, me neither, as it is fine. «Poop alone > poop with friends»

it is surely easier to convince openness over security, than to make people responsible for mistakes from early age, or something similar… (punk)

<no names. Just unwritten basis on common sense [hello, do you copy, someone!?] (yeeeeeah, BC I forgot - C.S. was sold over to people who don't give a f + that they therefore don't clash with others much, as those types of people could instead of those who got this habit in actual…

- what the eternal dilemmatic tragedy , when cheap points are more than priceless (surplus) points on morality [or call it as you wish, if you, after all this walltext, can still follow up/me thru]>!

Lol. What else piss me off a little and should not is, how "newbies" , instead of lurking as in times of Old Web, sought to be banned at the first try as they spam and annoy the way in entrance/scene. Rude, if you ask me. Where is fear XD?! Respect. Humility??

No clue if you ever noticed that, or it is just nostalgia and anemoia speaking from me. If it is real issue, struggle - or I am just "old school" (2007/08 on). Imagine that; either ｄａ　ｗｅｉｚ　changed. Or we were like this too. No memories of me being like that tho - or it is just wishful thinking of me, looking from perspective of present day. Either way, got the feels I ever predate that. (teenpunk?)

Not the Culture, be it y2k, Eternal september, or even before that. What I am talking about is, my idea is, - my politics, ways, views, align more with 60s and 80/90s max 10s, than with sit uations nowadays. (punk?)-

On and on, - as bad as it sounds, - what is normal for one is bigotry for another. Simplifications and generalizations surely don't help that. - Mentioning the before about critical thinking, cheap points, "children bad" morality security, so on. (punk!)

(Worst thing is following The Current thing without further deeper thoughts!!) (NPCs)

• spiritually (no Boomer) Hippie DGAF "old soul"

• I must've made dozens of "good-faith" fallacies by now XD. Hopes you got me!

What Is Kidcore? Is Kidcore And Decora The Same Thing?

2000's Nostalgia - Virtual Online Worlds, Flash Game Websites + Apps I've Played

The "I'm Not Like Most Girls" Phenomenon

both aestheticses:

• ("2007") related: https://archive.is/xd = https://twitter.com/MintaReturns/status/1672081890759819264264

• (how internet came to be *this*):

For the vast majority of people here, the internet was kind of like jumping in an alternate reality, connected but distinctly seperated from the normal world. This often took the form of video games, personal blogs, forum and the like.

For most people however, the internet is just an extension of reality. A very advanced telephone service essentially.

There was a period of time (late 90s to early 2000s) where essentially two main type of people on the internet: Tech professionals and nerds. The internet was attractive to nerds because it provided an alternative of reality and was an efficient time killer. As such, people who grew up in a nerd-culture dominated internet became unsatisifed when "normies" started to flow in, for it betrayed their mental model - their interpretation of what the internet should be.(*)[23]

• "Slow cancelation of future" term, 

• refering to Mark Fisher's[9] thesis on our inability to create visions of (new; positive) future(s)... (Derida, Stirner... - "throwing away" our learned ways, biased views on perception of present day - and possible/possibility of future; world "ever changing"...

  • According to Fisher, the quotation "it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism", attributed to both Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek, encompasses the essence of capitalist realism. Capitalist realism is loosely defined as the predominant conception that capitalism is the only viable economic system, and thus there can be no imaginable alternative. Fisher likens capitalist realism to a "pervasive atmosphere" that affects areas of cultural production, political-economic activity, and general thought. (Wikipedia; #2)

• The End of History and the Last Man is a 1992 book of political philosophy 

• by American political scientist Francis Fukuyama which argues that with the ascendancy of Western liberal democracy—which occurred after the Cold War (1945–1991) and the dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)—humanity has reached "not just ... the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: That is, the end-point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government."[44] (Wikipedia)

  • Failure of civil society and political decay In 2014, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the publication of the original essay, "The End of History?", Fukuyama wrote a column in The Wall Street Journal again updating his hypothesis. He wrote that, while liberal democracy still had no real competition from more authoritarian systems of government "in the realm of ideas", nevertheless he was less idealistic than he had been "during the heady days of 1989".

  • The end of history 

  • is a political and philosophical concept that supposes that a particular political, economic, or social system may develop that would constitute the end-point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_history

Related:

• Technozen?, DORFic, Frutiger Eco;

  • to part, notlikeothergirls, tweencore, teenpunk... (a)

    • Category:Frutiger Family - mid-00s Zeitgeist; later, speaking of broadly 2003/2004 - 2009 years-span

• So_Retro, Retro Fairycore, Cyberneticpunk

• Libertywave ideal(ism)s

• Emo, Midwest Emo; Indie...

• Scene, Punk, Mallgoth...; Old Web Alt Cartoon

• https://www.tumblr.com/computer-chronicles

• {https://www.tumblr.com/emolonersblog/725533778278219776?source=share}

• {https://www.tumblr.com/emolonersblog/725533827543531520?source=share}

• {https://www.tumblr.com/emolonersblog/725533901990330368?source=share}

  • https://www.tumblr.com/iloveblingee[45]/tagged/emo[46]...

    • - AW: (a) blingee, emo, teenpunk, mcbling, scene, punk (0)...

• colors, moods - https://www.tumblr.com/retroness-is-fabulous/725534841514475521/thegroovyarchives-vintage-novelty-transistor?source=share, https://www.tumblr.com/lantruong/725304283440005120/life-and-death-in-color?source=share

• this video: How '90s Internet Destroyed the Economy | The "Dot-Com" Bubble · NationSquid [47]

  • <90s positivity>
    
    

Anectodes[23]

• spans cca 2004-2009, disipates slowly thru 2012-2015 (2007-2013)

  • related: Occupy Wall Street is a series of protests in New York City and elsewhere across the United States that seek to resolve socioeconomic inequality and influence of corporate lobbying on Washington politics, as well as a number of other social injustices.(0) Mostly coordinated via social networking services like Twitter and Facebook without a central organizer, the flash-mob demonstration(0) began on September 17th, 2011 and its participants have since set up base in Zuccotti Park (formerly known as "Liberty Park") near Wall Street.

• related playlist: Mix – Sash! - Ecuador (Official Video)(*related)
   

Anecdotes

In the early 2000's I finished high school and went to college.

I was so stressed out, and in many ways very stupid, and didn't appreciate it at the time.

But god do I wish we could go back.

Pop culture seemed so dumb, but today it's even dumber.

The post 9/11 world seemed so dire, but today things feel even worse.

The Patriot act was the height of tyranny! But it was just a stepping stone to even more authoritarianism.

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You know one thing I really miss?

When most people still understood how important freedom of speech was!

I think it was the height of free speech in my lifetime:

• The Evangelical Christian Conservatives had lost the cultural power to enforce their prudishness and were mocked by comedians.

• The 80's/90's PC movements from the leftist academics had not gained any traction, and were mocked by comedians.

• People who got themselves all worked up and offended by things were rightfully mocked as the weak morons the are.

• It was "anything goes" when it comes to comedy, horror, political discourse. And everyone recognized it as a good thing.

• Xbox live voice chat.But then at some point it seems like the progressives realized that the Christians Conservatives didn't have the power to censor anyone anymore, and that was the signal that the left no longer had to pretend to care about free speech. Thus began an ever growing snowball of political correctness (anti-punk) which continues to this day and busted open the doors for all sorts of impending speech controls in the name of bullshit like "misinformation", "disinformation" and the new term they made up as an excuse to censor verifiably true things: "malinformation".[23]

(Also can relate to section below)

NW_Cryptid said:

I think in a lot of ways, a big reason I love the aesthetic is that it has a lot to do with discovery and exploration of a technological future. At the time things were given so much personality and meaning rather than being the same ol same ol we see today. These days people won't do anything that isn't "safe" they aren't willing to take a bet on something that hasn't been done before which is unfortunate considering how in the 00's everything was a gamble.

I personally have very fond memories of how things were, how different everything was. Even in the late 90's with things like the Gameboy, having a purple see-through gameboy color was so much cooler than just having a red or blue one. Those were the days when people could express themselves not just with what brands they owned but by what color and shape and size of everything they had.

Everything someone owned was a statement piece about who they were and their personality as an aspect of them. We just don't have that anymore. Everything is the same dull color tones, same boring shapes and sizes, same as his, same as hers. I won't argue that conforming is an entirely bad thing, I'm of the belief that being unique within a unified group is the best self you can be, original where it matters;

but understanding of others and willing to cooperate. Which is exactly how it felt to whip out a gaming console or cellphone of a brand you and your friends all owned, but with such unique properties that it truly was yours.[23]

•   [19]@K1ng1995  I think that there are two reasons why people don't want to work anymore.  the first is that they have been taught that their ambition is destructive and that anything they would have wanted to do will just burn electricity that they believe is a more finite resource than it actually is.  The second is that because fewer people are being ambitious leaders, those who tend to be followers don't have anyone to inspire them to work for them.

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUCyfmF20Qc&list=TLPQMTIwMjIwMjT5YaOxDALMgg&index=4&ab_channel=FoundationforEconomicEducation

[10]Gen-Z got it "over": (related to Millenialwave but even more "bad")

(#"News at 11" Postmodernism (YouTube playlists), metamodernism[20] (nostalgia, vaporwave, hauntology...)[19])

• View: https://youtu.be/l1b4qq6MQaw

• View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxkeQarkzsM&list=TLPQMTEwMjIwMjT5r9lMV4HY7Q&index=2&pp=gAQBiAQB

• View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsxsffKsgVY&list=TLPQMTEwMjIwMjT5r9lMV4HY7Q&index=3&pp=gAQBiAQB

• View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9mvcfVfbio

• (idk) View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JZ7ZpCC700

• *(paradoxes) https://youtu.be/yggpR7LphVQ*

• https://youtu.be/0JZ7ZpCC7

• lost future / post-occupy nonsense world / boring dystopia | Agora Road Forum[23] (Gallery)