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Is Counterculture Still Alive?
« on: January 31, 2021, 03:20:14 pm »
Is Counterculture Still Alive?
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We talk to Jordi Costa and Germán Labrador about the historical roots of counterculture and its current situation.

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It is curious how it adapts in very creative and different ways in each country. Jordi, in your book you provide examples of symbiosis, encounters and coincidences that are very bizarre for people unfamiliar with the subject. Did the underground penetrate in Spain in a special way?
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Let’s talk about the present. Do you think, Germán, that forms of underground, of counterculture, exist around us?
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G: Yes of course. There is graffiti, music, association networks, cooperatives, all of them typically countercultural. The 15M wave was countercultural and had a global dimension. The movements of 2011 can also be thought of as cultural revolutions. Radical solidarity networks, clandestine dining rooms, hacktivists, movements such as 15MpaRato, the green and white tides. In the global boom of feminism today we also see tensions typical of a counterculture that is becoming hegemonic. Vegans, animal rights defenders, degrowthers, extinctionists, Fridays for Future, etc. Also, those that are concerned with global diasporas. Today they are, and are going to be, the countercultural revolution that is pending.
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G: Trap and other similar sounds do not originate from this activist universe. But they do come from a nearby territory. This is the music of the children of the crisis of 2012. Of that 20% of children at risk of social exclusion. They were invisible and they made themselves visible with their music. Neighbourhood kids, condemned to contemporary forms of poverty, in a precarised and rarefied environment. But they are coming armed, they have immense cultural riches. They are the children of immigration, of multiculturalism, of access to Internet and to do-it-yourself. Self-taught, they learned to be disk jockeys, to rap, to compose, to promote themselves, to organise their own concerts, their own brands…

J: Trap is one of those territories that the view of some children of counterculture underestimates due to purely generational prejudices. Music critics who disqualify trap for its technical execution and excellence follow Social-democratic Taste. I think it is important to underline that it’s not strictly necessary to come from activism in order to have countercultural potential: it’s sufficient to formulate the discourse from the elements, from the life force… In the Spain of the 1970s, counterculture and political resistance walked together under the Franco regime: once democracy arrived, counterculture turned into that chaotic dirtiness that the left needed to either tame or hide under the carpet. The case of Rosalía is different: she is an artiste who seems to have understood to perfection the mechanics of the market in order to infiltrate them and manage to articulate her own discourse, which is perfectly legitimate but not necessarily countercultural. Moreover, without any desire to share out countercultural membership cards, a writer such as Cristina Morales, with a fierce discourse against the hegemonic and made of countercultural mettle, is taking advantage of the cash award of the National Literature Prize in order to continue creating in freedom.
http://lab.cccb.org/en/is-counterculture-still-alive/

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The inferiority of Kpop
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2021, 02:47:22 am »
(You knew I was going to get back round to this topic eventually.....)

In a recent casual conversation, an observation emerged that Kpop (a post-Counterculture phenomenon) is invariably performed by gender-segregated groups, either all-female (inferiority warning!):



or all-male (inferiority warning!):



to the extent that young people today unfamiliar with Counterculture-era music videos seem to take gender-segregated performance for granted, and are even unaware that non-gender-segregated performances used to be considered normal (crushing superiority alert!):





Additionally, back then sexual dimorphism was not emphasized whether by the performers themselves or by the director/editor. Once again, this shows how much less gender-obsessed people used to be back in the old days. (The absence of plastic surgery also helps.) This is to say nothing of the superiority of the songs themselves.....
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« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2021, 08:24:28 pm »
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Getting creative with some flute loops, raps, turntablism and some fancy war dancing.
Cinematography - Samuel Jerome Jay

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Lyrics:
Peace to all my people around the world, across the block/
(Apsáalooke language) "My name is "Good Fortune on Mother Earth"
reporting live from the universe/ it's the First Nations emcee/
you could do the search/who's been through the worse/surviving genocide/fighting for a better life/they try to set aside/the true history/and keep us mystical/ they say they founded this country on biblical principals?/ It's so cynical/but I'm an analyst/ it's murderous/they refer to us as merciless/ indian savages/ now that's written in the declaration of independence, that's no kidding/hey/open up your heart and let love lead the way/light your path with the words that I speak today/let the lessons flow/arrive and bless ya soul/systematic racism/alive, intentional/ know better do better is the motto/ it's that good medicine, a hard pill to swallow

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Re: Is Counterculture Still Alive?
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2021, 10:42:54 pm »
The feathers are unacceptable.

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« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2021, 11:00:01 pm »
The feathers are unacceptable.

Even if he picked them up off the ground? I noticed his Western wedding band on his "ring finger" too....

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« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2021, 11:23:56 pm »
Even if these particular feathers involved no initiated violence, wearing them could send a signal that feathers are acceptable, and then the next guy may initiate violence to obtain feathers.

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Why Satanic Panic never really ended
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The collective fears that consumed the US in the 1980s and ’90s are still alive and well — all the way through QAnon and beyond.
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« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2021, 11:10:22 pm »
Bonus:

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R.A. The Rugged Man is back with another surprise remix.  After reworking tracks from the likes of Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, and Cardi B, the underground hip-hop icon now wreaks havoc on Lil Nas X's controversial hit single "Montero".
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The Pirate Radio Broadcaster Who Occupied Alcatraz and Terrified the FBI
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Over fifty years ago, John Trudell overcame tragedy to become the national voice for Native Americans—and a model for a new generation of activists.
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a smiling man speaking into a microphone

Trudell had one thing the FBI could not stop: his voice. Image by Michelle Vignes/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty Images

He sat at the same table each evening, sometimes with lighting and sometimes without, a cigarette often in hand, a guest always by his side. In the background, the sound of waves rolling against the rocks and the stuttering of a backup generator were constants. Then, with a crackly yet true radio connection, streaming through the wires from an unthinkable place — Alcatraz Island — he began speaking in a calm, determined voice. The nation was listening.

In the Pacifica Radio Archives, located in a modest brick building in North Hollywood, you can hear what hundreds of thousands of Americans heard on those evenings.File through the cassettes and you will find more than a dozen tapes labeled with a single word: Alcatraz. Each is followed by a date, anywhere from December 1969 to August 1970.

But these were not simply programs about Alcatraz, that island in the notoriously frigid San Francisco Bay that was home to a federal prison until it closed in 1963. Rather, they were broadcast from the former prison building itself, from a small cell without heat and only a lone generator for power rumbling in the background.

The show was called Radio Free Alcatraz , and it was hosted by John Trudell, a Santee Sioux Native American activist and broadcaster.

By the winter of 1969, Trudell could be found in that austere cell, speaking over the rush of waves in a composed Midwestern accent. And by 1973, he had become one of the FBI’s most feared activists, with a file that would eventually run longer than 1,000 pages.

Why would the FBI compose its longest dossier about a broadcaster speaking from a rocky island a mile offshore? What was Trudell saying that frightened them so much?

Trudell was advocating for Native American self-determination, explaining its moral and political importance to all Americans. On air, he often revealed the innumerable ways the government was violating Native American rights: obstructing fishing access in Washington State, setting unfair prices on tribal lands, removing Native American children from local schools. But he didn’t just reveal the cruel contradictions at the heart of American society. He imagined a future in which equality — between different American cultures, and between all people and the earth itself — would become a reality

And for the first time, non–Native American communities were listening. More than 100,000 people tuned in to Pacifica stations in California, Texas and New York to hear his weekly broadcast.

At just 23 years old, with long brown hair and hanging earrings, Trudell had one thing the FBI could not stop: his voice.

Trudell’s story begins in the autumn of 1969, when a group of Native American activists, known as the Indians of All Tribes (IOAT), began contesting centuries of injustice by seeking to reclaim unoccupied lands. The organization pointed to the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which provided that all surplus federal land be returned to native tribes. IOAT set its eyes on Alcatraz, a symbolic beacon just past the Golden Gate Bridge. It had been unoccupied since President Kennedy closed the federal prison in 1963.

By inhabiting the 12 acres of Alcatraz, IOAT hoped to set a precedent for the reclamation of hundreds of thousands of unclaimed acres across the United States. But there was an obstacle: a hawkish government. Each time IOAT tried to reach Alcatraz — even making attempts to swim — the Coast Guard blocked their passage.

That all changed on the night of November 20. Under the cover of darkness and a dense blanket of fog, 79 activists from more than 20 tribes sailed from Sausalito across the frigid bay and settled on the island. Over Coast Guard radio, the sole caretaker of Alcatraz could be heard shouting, “Mayday, Mayday. The Indians have landed!” Despite his calls, the government’s response was delayed; the activists, many with their families and children, were safe. A gathering was held that night at 2 a.m., the old prison barracks were set up as homes, and food was lifted in fishing nets. Governing teams were also established.

Onshore allies knew the landing had succeeded when they saw a bright yellow Morse code message blinking through the mist: “Go Indians!” Back on Alcatraz, the children of the activists shrieked with excitement and clambered around the precipices of their new home.

John Trudell was not on those initial voyages. At the time, he had just returned from deployment in Vietnam, enrolled in San Bernardino Valley College, and moved in with his girlfriend, Fenicia Lou Ordonez. When he learned of the landing on Alcatraz, he suggested they join in.

“I get cold feet,” Fenicia protested, according to a scene in director Heather Rae’s 2005 documentary Trudell.

“Well, you’ll have to find socks,” said Trudell.

Expecting to join for only a few weeks, they packed sleeping bags, headed six hours north, and hitched a ride across the emerald bay on one of the IOAT-operated vessels, many of which were typically used for fishing and shipping.

What was once a treacherous journey with fierce Coast Guard resistance was now readily accessible, but not because the government had become any more benevolent. Rather, the activists’ tactic of establishing a critical mass on the island, and showing the nation why it was deservedly theirs, had succeeded. Fearing a public backlash, federal authorities called off the Coast Guard from intervening in these voyages.

Soon after docking on the island, Trudell attended the daily island meeting of IOAT leaders and tribal heads. He pointed out that if they truly wanted to make a case for the Native American right to reclaim unused land, they urgently needed to reshape the narrative. On his drive to the Bay Area, Trudell had seen national papers like The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle running stories portraying the occupation as a Native American theft — rather than a reclamation of what was stolen from them.

Trudell had spent the previous university semester studying radio and television production, and he felt that it was time, as he said in a 1969 interview, “to put into practice a little of what I had picked up at school.” He returned to San Bernardino for provisions, then returned to live on the island. He asked himself: “How would the tribes communicate best, and make their message known?”

His answer would take the occupiers’ message across the country and change the way Americans thought about the injustices perpetrated against native peoples.

If you lived in Northern California and tuned into KPFA-FM at 7:15 p.m. on December 22, 1969, or if you lived in New York City and tuned to WBAI-FM at 10:15 p.m., you would not get standard national news or updates about the moon landing.

Rather, you’d hear twangy guitar chords ushering in the voice of Buffy Sainte-Marie, who crooned a nostalgic ballad for Native American ways: “Now That the Buffalo’s Gone.”

The song was followed by an announcement.

“Good evening, and welcome to Radio Free Alcatraz . This is John Trudell, welcoming you on behalf of the Indians of All Tribes, from Indian Land Alcatraz Island.”

For the next 30 minutes, Trudell led conversations with Native American activists, spiritualists and students — many of whom were living on the island, visiting as volunteers, or ferrying supplies. It was called Radio Free Alcatraz , and Trudell typically began episodes by describing challenges on the island. There were many: Alcatraz had shaky electricity, a dearth of clean water, and it was frequently hit by strong offshore storms.

“It’s been a hassle lately with our electricity,” Trudell said one night at the beginning of a Radio Free Alcatraz show. “We had a power failure on Friday. … We didn’t have any power at all. And Saturday, we were stranded on the island because of bad weather.”

Despite these immediate challenges, Trudell — often clad in a wide-collared button-down underneath an emblazoned leather jacket — spoke both with the equanimity of a captain reporting to headquarters and the kindness of a good friend.

In an interview with KPFA hostAl Silbowitzin December 1969, Trudell sketched a portrait of life on the island and outlined the purpose of the occupation. While many watching from the shore had been amazed by the movement’s courage and ability to survive on the rocky island, Trudell wanted the non–Native American audience to know: This struggle was not unique to this moment. It was experienced daily by native tribes everywhere.

But what was unique, and urgent for all people to recognize, was that the activists’ intention with Alcatraz was to reshape the narrative and the oppressive course of history. As Trudell says in the interview, “Alcatraz is more than just a rock to us. It’s a stepping-stone to a better future. We have a chance to unite the American Indian people as they never had the opportunity to do.”

More often than not, however, Trudell’s primary role was not that of orator but rather of generous mediator, determined to animate Native American voices and convey a sense of hope born from their struggle. The heart of the program was his intimate voice — masterful at revealing the aspirational humanity that defined the movement, while outlining the enduring goal of activists to construct a university and Native American cultural center.

Trudell was not just a broadcaster: He was one of the unsung American forefathers of what we now call socially impactful publicity, or strategic communications. He already knew that for activists to succeed, it was not enough to campaign. They had to shape national consciousness.

On the night of December 28, his guest was Jonny BearCub, a member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes. Trudell opened with a question: “How are things on your reservation? Would you explain — what tribe are you with, and where is it at?”

Jonny raised concerns about the unjust allocation of federal funds to her reservation and revealed the low wages factory workers were receiving at a firearm production plant there.

“It happened in Palm Springs too,” said Trudell, drawing a connection, as he so often did, between a local complaint and a national one. “At one point, the Natives there were each worth $329,000 dollars a person. Then the BIA, or Bureau of Indian Affairs, stepped in and determined many of them incompetent to handle their affairs, so they put this money in trust with white people, who got fantastically wealthy.”

As an activist, Trudell’s role was often that of raconteur. He didn’t just tell about injustice. He relayed stories that showed it, and he had faith that Americans everywhere, having heard these stories, would do the right thing.

On January 5, 1970, just six weeks into the occupation, the 13-year-old daughter of Richard Oakes, one of the movement’s founders, fell to her death from a third-story window. Oakes, in immense grief, left the island. The child’s death, and his departure, were a blow to a community that was becoming increasingly disorderly and plagued by internal strife, as rumors mounted that the U.S. Marshals might raid the island at any time. But Trudell did not falter.

His was a voice of constancy, offering a lighthouse for a movement troubled at sea. “This is John Trudell from Radio Free Alcatraz , wishing you all a pleasant evening.”

Tragedy was not new to Trudell. It was a foundational part of his family history.

In the early 1900s, Trudell’s grandmother had been kidnapped by Pancho Villa’s men from her tribe in Chihuahua, Mexico, and brought to the U.S. She eventually settled down in Kansas with Trudell’s grandfather, a man with a price on his head for his involvement in the Mexican Revolution. A few years later, the couple had a daughter, who, after moving to Nebraska, fell in love with a Santee Sioux native, Clifford Trudell. The couple married and had John, born in a hospital close to the reservation in Omaha, on February 15, 1946.

John grew up on and around the Santee reservation in North Dakota. Life felt wholesome; the reservation offered respite from the civil commotion and disarray that characterized U.S. cities, while providing sources of ritual and community. But those rather innocent early years ended abruptly at the age of 6, when Trudell’s mother died in childbirth.

“We visited her, my father and I, in this hospital,” Trudell said in an interview recorded in the early 2000s. “I remember she gave me grapes — green grapes. She hugged me; she kissed me. And then it was time to go. I didn’t see her anymore.”

He paused, and spoke again, his still-powerful voice as soft and singsongy as a child’s.

“Green,” he said. “Time to go.”

In the early 1950s, John enrolled in school off the reservation, where he confronted a Western culture indifferent to his spiritual understandings and offering few answers to his enduring questions. He often asked, literally, “Where had my mother gone?” He learned about the Christian God and heaven from classmates and teachers. But these concepts never resonated with him. How could he trust a religion that was upheld by a culture that was threatening the lives of his tribe and Native American people everywhere?

“You have potential,” Trudell heard one day in the principal’s office. “But you have to work harder if you want to be something.” Trudell didn’t care for the patronizing tone, and he knew he already was something. He longed to escape a school that seemed to stifle, not teach.

He soon found a way, enlisting in the Navy during the early days of the Vietnam War. He spent his deployment far from the jungle battlefields, bobbing in the waters off of Saigon, watching the stunning kaleidoscopic sunsets and meditating on the fate of his people.

In 1971, the occupation was more than a year old, and the federal government began plotting to end it. In late May, they shut Ioff electricity and cut off all radio service on the island, ending Trudell’s broadcasts. The population on the island plummeted as water became increasingly difficult to access. Meanwhile, factions and power struggles began emerging within the occupiers; some wanted to hire an attorney to represent their claims. Others, including Trudell, believed self-representation was the only honest way forward.

When government agents raided Alcatraz on June 11, there were only 15 people remaining on the island. It is unknown whether Trudell was among them, but one thing was clear: Though the occupation was officially finished, Trudell was just getting started. His next fight would be with the FBI.

“He’s extremely eloquent, and therefore extremely dangerous,” reads a line in Trudell’s FBI dossier. They had no idea that the even greater danger lay in a deeper kind of power: his power to reveal inequality and injustice while appealing to natural liberty.

After the occupation, Trudell became the chairman and national spokesperson of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and fell in love with a prominent Native American activist, Tina Manning. They married in 1972 and often traveled and gave speeches together. Meanwhile, Trudell galvanized AIM through protests, most notably the 1973 campaign to reclaim Wounded Knee village from tribal chairman Richard Wilson, who was notorious for suppressing political opponents and failing to act in the best interests of the reservation.

Trudell’s oratory prowess transformed the grassroots movement into a national effort. But this time, he used it not to communicate to outsiders, but rather to organize disparate tribes.

It worked. Thousands of activists gathered at Wounded Knee, the site of a massacre of Native Americans by U.S. Calvary in 1890, which now had symbolic power. The FBI and federal marshals soon moved in. Clashes were deadly.
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« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2021, 10:11:34 pm »
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« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2022, 08:00:04 am »
Some parts of the Counterculture are alive:
-anti-racism
-environmentalism
-sexual liberation
-LGBT rights
-radical feminism
-yoga and meditation became mainstream

Other are not:
-being skeptical about economic technological growth

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« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2022, 09:40:48 am »
Youth worship typical of Counterculture is gone. Entertainment and advertising are now more focused on people in their 30s. "Adult negativity" and positive attitude to teenage rebellion are less widespread.

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Re: Is Counterculture Still Alive?
« Reply #12 on: March 07, 2022, 02:13:40 am »
I suddenly remembered that in the Orochi saga of the KOF series, the villains had their moves written in Cyrillic:

https://snk.fandom.com/wiki/Hakkesshu

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The Four Heavenly Kings of Orochi (オロチ四天王, Orochi Shiten-ō) are the four strongest warriors in the Hakkesshu among The Eight Heads. They control elements of nature, possess some of Orochi's original abilities, and can activate the Riot of the Blood in people who are susceptible to it, and/or use the state for themselves. Orochi can probably incarnate in them, as he did with Chris. All of their moves are all written using the Cyrillic alphabet.
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Except for certain characters, the movesets of all Orochi-awakened versions of the Hakkeshu (and even Orochi itself) are almost always written in Cyrillic, which is a Russian/Slavic writing script. There are currently no explanations as to why this is used, whether in-universe or from SNK.

See the move lists here:

http://you.lolipop.jp/s/kof/kof97/orochi.html

Low-key anti-Turanism was almost a standard side attitude back in those days. The BGM of their stage is also a good reflection of what we thought of them:

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« Reply #13 on: December 03, 2022, 04:11:18 pm »
I came across a quote online from a book that I think encapsulates how @90sRetroFan feels about their era perfectly:

“History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened. … There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”

Essentially, this whole passage can be boiled down to the tagline of our Counterculture Era thread: “when western civilization was meant to have died peacefully”

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Even though I was born right at the second millennium, so the post-9/11 world is really the only world that I truly know, and this book quote is referring to the counterculture of the 60s, I sometimes keep myself awake longer than I should be by going on a 90s kick. Honestly, this current era well and truly terrifies me. There’s something so isolating about how the internet has managed to fit itself into our society. Almost every place that human beings used to congregate in the flesh is now dead or dying because of the internet. Even monuments to western consumerism like malls are in zombified, decrepit states almost everywhere. The functions that these places used to provide can largely be accessed through online services. The grocery store is really the only place that people actually go to on a regular basis anymore, and even then, grocery stores were never used for interacting with people. Things are only going to get worse as VR technology improves. There will soon come a time where not only will we spend most of our time in total isolation, but even when we do “leave the house”, it’ll be for virtual environments surrounded by virtual people

Sometimes, I wish that we were all born at the same time, going to the same schools. Doesn’t even have to be in the 90s, although it’d be pretty sweet for all of us, including the 2000s babies, to relive 90sRetroFan’s youth. If the best of us had all been given the chance to grow up together and support each other, I have no doubt that tens of novels could have been written about what we would’ve gotten up to, and I probably would have cherished those memories my whole life.

But the reality is that life often robs us of romantic lives and leaves us with bland or even terrible youths. My reality was that I spent my youth almost completely alone save for the biological family that I didn’t ask for, because I found it hard to socialize like everybody else and always felt misunderstood. I can’t really describe in words how much it hurts my heart sometimes when I think about how I’m here, in this world that sets such low expectations for how people should be and how life should be, instead of in that world that I sometimes experience every once in a while, where I’m having a dream that I don’t wanna wake up from. I don’t really know any of you on a personal level. We’re all just text tied to usernames at this point. But my interactions with the people here have been more meaningful than almost every real life interaction I’ve had in my entire life.

@90sRetroFan, and the others, thanks for being here. I’m not so sure I would’ve made it here and came to the same conclusions about the world, had that website not been written
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« Reply #14 on: December 03, 2022, 05:53:54 pm »
"There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave."

Yes, this really was how it felt back then.

"I sometimes keep myself awake longer than I should be by going on a 90s kick."

Please feel welcome to share/review stuff you have watched or ask for suggestions on what to watch next! This is one thing I intended the Counterculture era forum to be for, and so far it has been underused in this capacity!

"it’d be pretty sweet for all of us, including the 2000s babies, to relive 90sRetroFan’s youth."

Let's do it right here! I'm ready whenever anyone else is!

Here is an early Christmas present for you:

https://mangatoto.com/chapter/390142
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