As Sándor Márai claimed, culture is kind of a remorse for the Americans, as it is hindering the loose consumption. How did specified a lifestyle happen to be imposed on the full world, and large luminaries of popular culture want to pull the strings of our minds to transform us into... the monsters of the Lifeless Hollow. A documentary about them Generation of prosperity.
Why is the right to usage TikTok limited in subsequent countries? Apart from Washington's policy towards China: due to the fact that there is still, as it seems, a trace amount of self-preservation instinct in the political organisms of the fallen West.
How do TikTok's algorithms work? It is said that in China, they advise children and young people on educational materials, on individual improvement or simply hobby. On the another hand, outside China, their goal is to lead minds to the stupidest possible content. If this is true, it would make TikTok a tool not only for obtaining data, but besides for conducting cultural warfare through foolishness.
This example perfectly illustrates what culture is in the hands of left-wing "elite". It is like these algorithms – to guide us towards sweet-bitter forgetting what the average planet looks like (where sweetness is temptation, and bitterness is fatigue with fruitless search for satisfaction, due to the fact that beyond its appropriate source, we are incapable to find happiness on this earth.
In order to realize the nature of the post-revolutional world, 1 must take care not only of what is, but besides of what is not... Well, I just sat down for a lonely lunch and thought I'd look for something valuable to see. any documentary that would tell me something about the world. As I deleted all subscriptions for Lent, I only had Amazon (Prime Video platform) that offers a inexpensive subscription for a year, akin to Allegro Smart.
I looked through respective 100 documentaries and realized (with productions and promoted positions on Netflix or HBO in memory – not to mention the TV, due to the fact that I haven't seen it in 20 years), that all of this is purely for amusement and not for advanced flight. Just like in Chinese algorithms!
In addition to various stupidities, traces of natural films and a fistful of biographical films (but mostly about celebrities), too murders, looking at yachts for rich people, and it is not known what else, the mouths and the “porno-rubens” shapes of “Kardashianek” have been jumping... Mother, what do I care about any rotten women? - I thought so.
Pornographic “culture” is no longer ashamed of the fact that there are not people at the centre of interest who have something interesting to say, but those in whom certain parts of the body talk a circumstantial language to the lower authorities of our being...
Finally, I found something interesting – Generation Wealth ("The Generation of Prosperity"), a movie that proved to be an highly sincere, individual communicative of the author, and at the same time distasteful of its repulsive shamelessness to capture this "pre-apocalyptic" scenery of civilization digging holes at the bottom of our own fall. This is besides a good reason to reflect on how the "culture" of consumption yet turns into a whip that man has twisted against himself.
Director Lauren Greenfield herself admits that by preparing 30 years ago material about the decadence of rich kids in Los Angeles, she did not know what she was looking for, but then she saw what the relation was between the 1990s and today's minute of the collapse of a culture that resembles the end of the world, as 1 of the scholars in the movie says.
Years later, we see characters telling us how their lives have changed since. Hot Latinwho was of a mediocre family, but had Best breasts in advanced school, confesses that he treats this time as something, What to be healed of. But that's what shaped generations of liberal Americans and it was exported along with mass pop culture all over the world...
The movie besides shows the degeneration of the American Dream. erstwhile the price was the value of hard work, economy and prudence – the success achieved by believing in your own strength and striving for happiness, which is possible through a good fiscal strategy and celebrated “freedom and justice for all”. Now – the heroes have the impression – all of this has replaced simply chasing “a luck and fame”. Of course, according to each of the participants of this cultural rat race – for any it will be Forbes' list, and for others an detonation of sleighs and a large "feedback" on Instagram combined with influence contracts.
On the another hand We're a completely spornographic culture. – as stressed by academic lecturer Chris Hedges. Archived materials take us back to the 1970s. We see the looseness next to the inactive applicable dress code – the time of contrasts – is the same era erstwhile women in San Francisco triumphantly dropped bras, while the same streets walked in always neat inspector Callahan's suit, called Dirty Harry.
We see teenagers reaching the top of the outer abomination and humiliation, while at the same time reasoning that you can be even more hideous inside, although dressed in a beautiful bespoke suit. By the way, I announcement that this is something that can be seen in culture and today. This contrast returns with Netflix production Cobra Kai, erstwhile we compare the image of young people from the series and their pictures in the "real". On the screen, they enter their clothes and behaviour into a customs convention as the show is simply a continuation of household cinema Karate Kid. Contrast occurs erstwhile actors appear at the premiere or are caught on the street. It is almost painful to watch characters who make so many nobleness and authenticity parade in ugly, bizarre and loose clothes and behave with infantilism typical of modern American teenagers. They are, in fact – 1 could say. But does it truly have anything to do with the fact about the beauty of their immortal souls? I dare to uncertainty it.
The pornographic manufacture here is, of course, the boss of all the bosses, acting in hiding, but keeping in check the movie industry, entertainment, public space, the production of toys and materials to make all the recipients of this anti-culture from a kid soak up a distorted image of humanity and make out of their reasonable nature the feeding of sins and corruption.
This is the distorted planet we're dealing with in Lauren Greenfield's documentary. There are moments of dramatic sincerity erstwhile 1 of the dancers “for adults” says: You sale your soul to the devil, you burn so much, you halt feeling it..
An interesting cultural casus is besides the combination of 2 environments in modern Russia – oligarchs and actual descendants of aristocratic families. A typical of the second talks about the revival of the debutante ball tradition today. Whoever has been in Russian literature knows precisely what's going on. Today, however, it is no longer a organization for women from good homes who enter social life, but – as the aristocrat explains on the screen – the daughter of the fresh Rich, whom Louis Vitton wants to sale as many bags as possible. The difference is like real life and theater. – explains the Russian, while telling how the oligarchs fill their shelves with valuable books and old prints, which they then do not even let to contact because... are besides expensive.
Of course, the Botox and plastic surgery thread could not miss, as outlined in the convention physical transformation as Cinderella's history. This part of the movie fits into the most series of most drastic scenes, but it is more frightening to know that these are not scenes invented in any sick head and directed – but taken from life. In average times, specified images would be instinctively rejected by most of society, and the movie itself would hit an index of forbidden works. present he simply papers the human fall in his most utmost and nauseating cases.
People turn into the Monsters of the Lifeless Hollow, forgetting all natural or supernatural discernment of the meaning of life. Emptyness is nothing, and our task is to overcome it by accepting our own limitations and creating a certain good, building virtues. Monsters grow out of this emptiness, due to the fact that it is it that becomes the foundation, and at the same time the building of a fresh identity. spiritual and bodily mutant – that would besides be a good word for any people present in Generation Wealth.
But 1 character appears in the scenery that brings light. It's a Florian Homm. erstwhile a ruthless banker, a multimillionaire pursuing the dead and a notorious fornicator, and after serving in an Italian prison – a convert who claims that the meaning of his further life is that people can get to know the Blessed parent better.
Florian Homm, HR from the movie Generation WealthHe is the 1 who, in addition to the voice of reason, introduces an economical subject to the film. It speaks of what happened to America after abandoning the gold standard, while pointing out the vital link between economical and cultural deprivation. Separating money from real assets led to the abandonment of fiscal discipline, printing money for power and loose consumption. Here comes another point, in turn at the interface of war and social media. As long as planet wars cannot be waged without false money, present it is impossible to make an image without a false mirror, which is social media...
In the 1970s, it ended. production empire, and it started the empire of consumption, noted Homm. Is today's subculture "infuencer" no longer just paroxysm of this phenomenon, erstwhile it is possible to become practically another person, "expert", "professional", "ambassador" in 2 months – and convince thousands of another people to do so. Detaching the human image from the actual value (like a banknote from a gold bar) makes all energy invested in a forced social product, which does not necessarily reflect a actual erudition or success achieved with thoughtfulness, courage and hard work, in which human nature is shaped...
At the end of the article, the author says a lot about the failure of modern man: Although I can deconstruct culture in my work, I'm inactive susceptible to it. It's just who I am, and I couldn't change it....
On the 1 hand, this can be explained as explained by the Hungarian author at the beginning. Americans fear culture as a kind of censorship that can prevent them from enjoying unrestrained material possessions – Sándor Márai constatuated. And he added: In Italy, I lived among mediocre people, sometimes mediocre as beggars, but they were never proletarians. In America, I'll most likely live among rich people who, with a fewer exceptions, are all proletarians..
On the another hand, we must remember that all this immoral component of childhood, existential ignorance and vanity is not only a river that flows through its own stream... Of course, it is simply a river and it is hard to stop, but at the same time it has built full industrial centres around it, whose task is to constantly deepen and grow its trough, to make fresh branches, to further pollute and draw as many souls as possible into its treacherous currents.
After all, individual chooses repertoire, individual teaches money for fresh productions. Giving the sphere of culture into the hand – first intellectual, and now increasingly barbarous left – has its consequences and we see them at all turn.
Filip Obara
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