Makes me sad watching those spaces be killed. My hometown made it to the 90s but was sold out for "foreign investment" after. Many of the old places and culture are gone and over run with foreigners.
There are pockets of the old left and I hope they build. Best seen in very traditional and orthodox Christian communities.
It is a drag. I was back in the old place not long ago. Almost all the hangouts and venues are gone. The demographics were part of it. But ethnic dudes got socialized if a) not too many & b) organic culture.
It’s the centralization-atomization-screens that prevented organic reactions by replacing socio-culture. Well, that and total control over assumed reality.
"Fights were weekend constants, but no one ever seemed to get critically injured or spend more than a night in the can. Nihilistic hedonism filtered through deeply imprinted socio-cultural lines. Lines blurred or erased now while most of the social contexts no longer exist."
My children cannot believe some of our stories. It's just a completely different world.
Mine either. The notion that “high-profile” = no escaping having to smoke some dude in a parking lot or campground or something is like a fantasy novel. But it meant the high profile guys had a courage/formidability floor. Which is a Gamma killing reality test. Organic socialization.
The helping me sort through it part really is a big rationale. Feral childhood extended into 20s in a sputtering high trust society with no actual power.
Makes me sad watching those spaces be killed. My hometown made it to the 90s but was sold out for "foreign investment" after. Many of the old places and culture are gone and over run with foreigners.
There are pockets of the old left and I hope they build. Best seen in very traditional and orthodox Christian communities.
It is a drag. I was back in the old place not long ago. Almost all the hangouts and venues are gone. The demographics were part of it. But ethnic dudes got socialized if a) not too many & b) organic culture.
It’s the centralization-atomization-screens that prevented organic reactions by replacing socio-culture. Well, that and total control over assumed reality.
"Fights were weekend constants, but no one ever seemed to get critically injured or spend more than a night in the can. Nihilistic hedonism filtered through deeply imprinted socio-cultural lines. Lines blurred or erased now while most of the social contexts no longer exist."
My children cannot believe some of our stories. It's just a completely different world.
Mine either. The notion that “high-profile” = no escaping having to smoke some dude in a parking lot or campground or something is like a fantasy novel. But it meant the high profile guys had a courage/formidability floor. Which is a Gamma killing reality test. Organic socialization.
The helping me sort through it part really is a big rationale. Feral childhood extended into 20s in a sputtering high trust society with no actual power.
NUC? Is that here? https://university.nuc.edu/about-us/