Great thoughts. For the past decades, we haven't had clear narratives for the future that have managed to gain a wide appeal. It's led to people turning to nostalgia and being inspired by music and 'aesthetics' from the last time things seemed 'normal', when the future still looked positive.
I've found it fascinating, because some of the aesthetics people are turning to were made by people who were trying to get away from the past. Take the gabber revival for example. 90s gabbers wouldn't have wanted to participate in a revival of 1960s culture. As a matter of fact, many made fun of those who did. Where getting away from the past was a key theme in large, global subcultural movements, now it seems like it's a small avant-garde who's interested that, besides people trying to escape oppression (whilst soothing themselves with nostalgiacore aesthetics).
Occupy Wall Street, 'the New Left', as well as new environmentalist movements all seemed contenders for being able to push a narrative for the future into the mainstream, but so far these visions have not found a coherent adoption in a way that can be easily formulated by those it should appeal to.
The egregores are there though. Luigi is a great example of that. I wonder if it's in this amalgamation of egregores that we can eventually find and identify a coherent new vision, or if the future of ideology in this accelerated information age is more a matter of vibes, memes, and egregores, rather than more rigid and well-defined narratives.
Great thoughts. For the past decades, we haven't had clear narratives for the future that have managed to gain a wide appeal. It's led to people turning to nostalgia and being inspired by music and 'aesthetics' from the last time things seemed 'normal', when the future still looked positive.
I've found it fascinating, because some of the aesthetics people are turning to were made by people who were trying to get away from the past. Take the gabber revival for example. 90s gabbers wouldn't have wanted to participate in a revival of 1960s culture. As a matter of fact, many made fun of those who did. Where getting away from the past was a key theme in large, global subcultural movements, now it seems like it's a small avant-garde who's interested that, besides people trying to escape oppression (whilst soothing themselves with nostalgiacore aesthetics).
Occupy Wall Street, 'the New Left', as well as new environmentalist movements all seemed contenders for being able to push a narrative for the future into the mainstream, but so far these visions have not found a coherent adoption in a way that can be easily formulated by those it should appeal to.
The egregores are there though. Luigi is a great example of that. I wonder if it's in this amalgamation of egregores that we can eventually find and identify a coherent new vision, or if the future of ideology in this accelerated information age is more a matter of vibes, memes, and egregores, rather than more rigid and well-defined narratives.