"Is It Still 2008 and If So, Why?"
Andrew Anglin
July 1, 2021
"Lacking access to the normal process of family building would in theory make men much less motivated to create new things. Every man I know has more or less completely given up on women. We don’t really see “tfw no gf” memes anymore, because no one maintains romantic ideas anymore. A lot of guys still have girlfriends, but they’re usually not under the illusion they’re going to build a family.
Along with lacking the basic natural motivation and romantic drive towards creativity because of the phone, it’s just an obvious fact that constantly having a screen in front of your face is going to destroy both concentration and creativity.
Therefore, everyone in society is stuck in a loop. The creatives themselves are stuck in a loop in that they aren’t coming up with new ideas, but more importantly, the masses of consumers are stuck in a loop. The entire concept of art involves the artist asking the viewer of the art to join them in a creative journey, and this then requires imagination on the part of the consumer of the entertainment. Therefore, even if an artist is capable of putting aside the women disaster, putting down the phone, keeping off the various anti-creativity drugs, and staying fit enough to have a working brain, his art is not worth anything to a society that is stuck in a loop and therefore only has interest in the safe and familiar.
However we must note that even if we’ve reached a kind of stasis in terms of artistic expression, society continues to change rapidly, as we continue down this death spiral of homosexuality, racial revolution and feminism. The fact that people choose to comfort themselves with this looped 2008 culture simply shows that people of all ages are simply dumbstruck, incapable of offering a response to what is happening."
Is It Still 2008 and If So, Why?
"Lacking access to the normal process of family building would in theory make men much less motivated to create new things. Every man I know has more or less completely given up on women. We don’t really see “tfw no gf” memes anymore, because no one maintains romantic ideas anymore. A lot of guys still have girlfriends, but they’re usually not under the illusion they’re going to build a family.
Along with lacking the basic natural motivation and romantic drive towards creativity because of the phone, it’s just an obvious fact that constantly having a screen in front of your face is going to destroy both concentration and creativity.
Therefore, everyone in society is stuck in a loop. The creatives themselves are stuck in a loop in that they aren’t coming up with new ideas, but more importantly, the masses of consumers are stuck in a loop. The entire concept of art involves the artist asking the viewer of the art to join them in a creative journey, and this then requires imagination on the part of the consumer of the entertainment. Therefore, even if an artist is capable of putting aside the women disaster, putting down the phone, keeping off the various anti-creativity drugs, and staying fit enough to have a working brain, his art is not worth anything to a society that is stuck in a loop and therefore only has interest in the safe and familiar.
However we must note that even if we’ve reached a kind of stasis in terms of artistic expression, society continues to change rapidly, as we continue down this death spiral of homosexuality, racial revolution and feminism. The fact that people choose to comfort themselves with this looped 2008 culture simply shows that people of all ages are simply dumbstruck, incapable of offering a response to what is happening."
