The 2020's Are The Opposite Of The 1960's
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- The vibe shift has been initiated, and it can now not be changed, for better or worse.
An unstoppable wave of societal change is currently occuring, and will only continue to do so, until a similar transformation to the 1960's revolution has concluded.
In this production, I'll be showcasing 6 comparisons of the 1960's to the 2020's, and explaining how they are the polar opposites, setting the scene for the decade and also decades to come.
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The economy didn't start to boom in the 60's. It was booming. In regards to the Western world in general, it had been booming since the early 50's, the 1950's itself being a decade of tremendous optimism.
The United States was booming, given that they were the ones financing and arming the war, but largely avoided the consequences. Everyone else in the West was doing it tough.
us started booming first. it took 10 years to rebuild europe
@@benfelps The British started the strategic bombing campaign in Europe, in May 1940, not the US, who weren't even in the war until December 1941. Anyway, it doesn't matter.
Yes, rebuilding took tremendous effort and investment capital. Guess what that did to the European economy? It boomed. A country like West Germany (founded in 1948), although its cities reduced to heaps of rubble, could also benefit from the huge industrial investments done during the war. Together with the Marshall aid, this meant that the West German economy turned green already in 1948, marking the beginning of the so-called "Wirtschaftswunder", which just went on and on, year by year, throughout the 1950's and 1960's.
Most of western and northern Europe was pretty much the same. Even Britain had joined the affluence club by the mid 1950's, despite some meagre years directly postwar.
I agree that the 1950's were a time of great optimism, which almost certainly contributed to the successes of that time. That being said, while it's true that there was economic growth in the 1950's, it's worth noting that (contrary to popular belief) this period wasn't a magical time of mega-prosperity. In fact, there were several recessions in the 1950's, and although GDP and quality of life did increase, it was mostly due to an economic "rebound" effect, not really new growth. There was so much productivity lost during the war years (either destroyed or siphoned away from civilian use and toward the military) that when these resources were finally freed up for civilian use again, it gave the impression of a massive economic boom. Yes the economy was indeed growing, but most of that growth was just the economy "getting back on track" to where it should've been if the war never happened.
It's kinda like how Biden claimed that his administration "created" hundreds of thousands of jobs, but in reality most of this "job growth" was just the labor market rebounding from the Covid years. Similar to the 1950's, the "growth" wasn't really new growth, but rather just the economy getting back to where it would've been if it hadn't been disrupted.
Interestingly, seeds of that economic boom were planted by the progressive New Deal, and later dismantled by Reagan and his conservatives. The current crises and death of the American Dream can be traced back to him.
You know, it's kind of hard to be pessimistic when I start seeing more young people getting to shape and start asking more questions. Things are looking up as long as everyone stays strong
Absolutely not lol
@@bartholomewesperanza3442if you get off the internet, you'd see they're right
Let me know what you're smoking fella. I want some.
@@PedroPanzer you don't see the rise of fitness? You haven't noticed more young people in your church? You haven't noticed Hollywood and corporate entertainment losing it's appeal for younger people? You haven't noticed atheists circles shrinking sense the death of Christopher Hitchens?
My brother in Christ, open your eyes so you may behold the dawn of a glorious day.
Pick up weight lifting, it's a better high than anything you can get off the streets
Maybe I'm too old and out of touch. If this is all happening then I'm all for it.@@TwilightBinder
The 60's up through the 90's were one giant, society-wide party.
We are now entering the long, painful hangover to follow.
Definitely a super american perspective xD the rest of the world is very jealous of our late 20th century experience. In reality though, pop culture always looks like one big party. I think youre forgetting things like: the bay of pigs, the kennedy assassination, the black panthers occupying the capitol with tons of loaded rifles, the capitol bombing, The Iran Contra and the crack epidemic, the reagan and carter years, George Bush Senior, ruby ridge, Waco, Bill clinton, The oaklahoma city bombing.. Does the election of Bush Jr count? Can we count US foreign policy during that time as one giant point as well? xD
It appears so
do you guys see my other comment?
Definitely a super american perspective xD the rest of the world is very jealous of our late 20th century experience. In reality though, pop culture always looks like one big party. I think youre forgetting things like: the bay of pigs, the kennedy assassination, the black panthers occupying the capitol with tons of loaded rifles, the capitol bombing, The Iran Contra and the crack epidemic, the reagan and carter years, George Bush Senior, ruby ridge, Waco, Bill clinton, The oaklahoma city bombing.. Does the election of Bush Jr count? Can we count US foreign policy during that time as one giant point as well? xD
@@Merc399 no. Feel like a powerless ghost yet?
18:01 As Ukrainian im not agree with you, joking about war is extremly popular among ukrainian population and soldiers, the most cruel and unethical memes come from peoples involved in conflict, cause it is a black humour, the form of self reliev in extreme situations.
Also i saw this exact NAFO doggo 18:04 on patch of one of our soldiers, so we are not ashamed of these memes at all
As a person from Donbass, I absolutely confirm. The endless stream of black humor from veterans is incomparable.
Yup, the Ukraine war has produced some of the finest comedy in the world.
Russian memes like "The crests have peaked, the ass is in the ass, and the air defense cuckold is in the chair" are going to live rent-free in my head for decades.
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Yeah that checks out. American here with a lot of friends who are current or former military. They make some of the darkest and edgiest jokes I've heard and I love it.
can definitely confirm that as an Israeli. there's nothing that gets shared faster then black humor memes.
It's better to be 20 in the 70s than 70 in the 20s...
Joe Walsh is great
It's better to be in your 20s then in your 70s period. It always was.
the Draft of Vietnam would say otherwise.
As screwed up as things are today, Good Luck with That.
I'll be Dirt Napping while you 20's are paying the Butchers Bill for the GenX,Y, Z, Q... Liberal Socialist F**k Ups! 🤣 🍺 🍻 🥳🎉
People who were 20 in the 70s actually are 70 in the 20s. So those people are one in the same. But yes, it's often better to be younger.
Funny, we try to go in the opposite direction of everything our parents and grandparents believed and just seemed to end up at the same place
Prolly because it's a circle.
The Z in Gen Z stands for Zero; as in, we'll have nothing- and we'll be forced to be ok with it, or die fighting to grab a scrap of anything
Bars holy fuck.
I thought they were the final generation before the end of the world.
yep 💯💯
In many ways, gen z seems like it could be the new "silent generation," although I'm sure that's only about half the full generation.
Im Gen Z and I’ll fight as hard as I’m allowed to stand up to the stupid imposed culture.
It's hard to be optimistic while you watch housing and the cost of living out pace your yearly salary exponentially almost every 3 months. My home state just released an economic evaluation that stated to be able to afford a home and cost of living here, the household had to make over 150k per year. I live in fucking Utah, a a state where as of November 2023, the median income was barely over 48,000$ and a median household income of around 80k. What part of this is optimistic? It is sad that an entire generation is basing their chances of EVER being able to have a home and a family on an economic housing crash that would financially ruin hundreds of thousands of people OR the hope that their parents and grandparents will die so their houses can either be inherited or drive the cost down. This is not what an optimistic society should be looking at. Companies are providing C level executives with 10s of millions of dollars in bonuses every year while increasing wages by 2 or 3% and laying off entire departments because "we can't afford to keep you here".
Even worse, most boomer parents are giving us the big middle finger and leaving everything to some "charity".
@@ahmataevo ie Blackrock ends up with the houses.
It's worse in Utah because most of the state lives in the Wasatch valley so housing won't go down because there's only a finite amount of space.
There is pessimism and then there is delusion.
At the end of your video, you talk about a shift to the far-right.
I would say that it is more like a shift from the moderate center to both extrems of the spectrum, a shift towards extremisms.
Yeah, we live in a time where mutual intelligibility, in all facets of society, is becoming rarer and rarer by the day. People are switching to the extremes in every dual argument and conflict from religion, to politics, to sexuality and everything in between.
There's no single direction society is tending towards other than stark, definable divergence in every aspect of the word.
Right in the point
Yes, but ultimately it will shift to the right. Polirization isn’t a relaxed state. One of the fundamental ways in which the universe works is that too much polirization will eventuelly culminate in action, just take physics as an example. Society cannot keep polarizing, it will reach a breaking point. A conflict will ensue and almost guaranteed is that the conservative counter culture will create the new paradigm following it.
Back then that thing was segregation.
@@fluffynator6222most extremists today aren’t racist though
It’s odd how between:
student protesters against a war,
human rights constantly being debated,
extremist polarization,
the military industrial complex literally “rubbing out” whistleblowers in front of the public,
Previous social norms being questioned,
a general exposure of large institutions leading to mass distrust of authority,
The current climate in the U.S (let alone the world) really does draw some odd parallels to the 1960s; but pretty much this Doc hits the nail on the head that instead of unity among people that was in the 60s over such events, there’s unbridled rage and social divisions that are basically being threaded into our collective ideals.
It’s actually pretty scary when you think about it.
If the 60s proved anything it’s that most social issues tend to get kicked down the road for the next generations a couple times removed to fight for again.
Except this time hopefully balance will prevail ☯️
That's the hope, where people just exist and have little more than minor inconveniences to complain about.
We're returning to the bronze age, but with modern technology.
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO!!!!!
SARGON OF AKKAD THE G.O.A.T 🐐🐐🐐
Considering how devastating the end of the bronze age was for all of civilization, I'm not sure if that's the route we want to take
WAGMI
Im about to sell a guy some EXTREAMLY subpar copper
@@codywork-us7wu You mean an old n64, from when times were great?
I would be interested in the one thing that HASN'T changed since the 1960's: higher academic/social science culture. Look up some sociology or psychology papers from the 60's. All these "revolutionary new progressive ideals" that we think we're so smart and cultured for, literally were written about in exactly the same way almost 80 years ago. It's really eerie, you genuinely can't tell the difference from modern 2020's left wing rhetoric
Also climate change! 60's climate change papers are the same doom and gloom we get today: "We only have 3 more years to stop this trend!!!", none of which have come true.
Look up "the long march through the institutions".
Conservatives are the counter-culture socially, but conservative economics still hold immense power in America. Also, hippies were communists, if anything. Why did you say they were libertarian? Living off the grid in communes and housing co-ops were very popular with the hippies, I wouldn't say those things are adjacent with free markets.
It's easy to spin things into a certain light. For better or worse.
The only argument I can think of is hippies wanted to be left alone while they created communes, which is sort of true. The modern commies want to enforce communism onto others, whereas the hippies were too high to care
No those are libertarians as well. Living off grid is what they do. You're too much looking into the "Free market" angle and not the "anti-government" angle, which is just as important.
Communes are that, communes, it doesn't mean communism as religious communes have existed for hundreds of years.
@@MatthewKelley-mq4ce
Ironically OP did the same.
@@Web720 That's true, although I still feel like the hippie movement had more in common with communist ideals (world peace, collectivism, revolution, etc.) Although communes aren't necessarily communist, it's far from libertarian which is more focused on individualism.
21:23 you left out the part that people had a sense of techno optimism - now days theres an over arching sense of dread whereas it feels as if the direction technology is naturally exploitive whereas its a tool for the elite to replace us and usher in a new era of techno feudalism. Even music something uniquely human is within the target scope of the techno elite who by extensive see it as something to be exploited and reduced down to the opposite of self expression but instead soulless mass produced reduced down to time and efficiency
Agreed. 1960s had the space race which sparked fascination about technology in people while 2020s have AI which is generally considered to be a threat to humanity. And no wonder, as people keep using AI for creating ''art'' and shit instead of trying to find ways to make life better for us so that WE can create art.
In terms of music and visual entertainment, it's even worse. They are actively used as tools for mass brainwashing.
Techno optimism sounds repulsive
I really really dislike the Beatles and Lennon. Idolizing those musicians like they were something to be aspire as started a horrible trend of thinking a totally ignorant and pseudo intellectual artist knows whats better for society. Lennon runned so Lizzo could roll over her own body
S&W was a blessing truly
Lennon ran so Lizzo could roll lmfao.
Lennon was not a good person
Their music was revolutionary at the time. There was literally nothing like them at the time. If you listen to music pre and post Beatles/Hendrix its like night and day. The only thing revolutionary about lizzo is her belly rolls
@@longiusaescius2537 Damn XD
So wait...we're not actually going forward? We're just swapping ideologies over generations?
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such is life, I guess.
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them."
An excerpt from Ecclesiastes, assumed to be written in the 900's BC
No, breaking 80 years of mythology
No, we’re actually going backwards with industrial efficiency, the only thing that has gotten better and more complex is technology and we didn’t know how to use it properly.
19:58 People born in 1995 or 2000 : we are gonna have a beatiful meaningful life
2008 crisis : ahahahah
2020 pandemic : ahahahah
And they wonder why people are giving up
They shouldn't give up. They should wake up! They should unionize against the billionares that exploit them and vote out the politicians that are in the pockets of the pockets of the wealthy.
@@spicewilliam9786 Education is one of the keys to this possible Future.
I was born in '92 and these are not the things that killed my hope. modern materialistic and hedonistic culture did that all on its own.
@sakamotosan1887 bro I could care less about people banging, I don't wanna not ever be able to get a house before I even get to college.
Bro, yall should've been in school in 2008. 😅 TF!
great point about Gen z having no culture of their own it's sad. It's definitely part of the reason they're so nihilistic
Fucking brutal.
never began for us
Our culture has just started, so the point is moot
im not nihilistic lol?
...what?
Whos here from gerby?
Gerby nationalist ✊️🤓
Gerb supremacy 🤓✊🏾
I be gerbying
Me am
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Gotta be honest. I’m fascinated. I’ve often heard of people you don’t agree with that you can listen to and agree and disagree with points, but it’s a true first for me.
He is very skilled in rethorics but do mind that he credited himself as a source at least once and described mostly vibes and feels otherwise.
Yeah it's a good video but it definitely sounds like rightiod "return to surfdom" slop in most parts.
@@krismurray77 complete lack of content in this criticism, you are upset because he is right
Reminds me of Shakespeare's first play, Titus Andronicus. Sacrificing Rome's children to dead gods, something even an animal wouldn't do.
Where did he mention abortionn?
@@allthenewsordeath5772 During the Free Love part
I would argue that alot of the traits that you mentioned of the 2020s is a direct RESULT of the victory of the counter-culture of the 1960s. Alot of the identitarian politics started as a result of the liberation movements of the 1960s. Hiring quotas etc started in the 1970s and continued to our day. The decline in patriotic sentiments and religiosity are a result of the counter-culture winning culturally. Considering that the the youth surplus of the 1960s is now an elder surplus in the 2020s, that means many of those 'rebels' live long enough to attain positions of cultural and political power and authority. Because of the size of their generation this means an outside influence on society as a whole. What we see today could be an echoed reaction to the more established aspects of the old counter culture. The first reaction were the older generations in the 1960s and 1970s ie the opposition to the ERA. It only makes sense that younger generations would rebel against the old counter culture now that it is just "culture" as many aspects of it did swing a little to far. Alot of the "wokeism" if you want to call it that are simple the logical end points of the momentum started in the 1960s. Hell even the hyper individualism and neoliberalism of today are a direct result of the 1960s. The counter culture was often based on destructive hyper individualist ideals.
We need to go back to classic traditions. Values that worked well for thousands of years.
@@pilouuuu until the industrial revolution and liberalism.
100% Correct. If you want to know a more detailed history of this exact process read the book "The Age of Entitlement" by Christopher Caldwell. It draws a direct line from the 1960s to the 2010s (the book was published in 2020).
@@pilouuuu Classic traditions are always looked at through rose-coloured glasses. Until we look and see that "classic traditions" includes racial segregation
@@shadowcween7890, it's not like we have to perfectly emulate the ideas of the past. Taking inspiration from something is not the same as copying it, after all.
Who's also got gerbed into here?
me!
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Did he give a shoutout?
5:40 I’m about to sound really pretentious but Every decade has a look and music that best capsulates the public conscience of the time, especially the youth. 60s-70s was optimistic hence the music and hippie colorful dress. Late 70s-90s was enjoying the luxury and economic boom, however the youth was very angry at the conservative status quo hence the in your face cultures like punk that exist to piss you off. 2000s-2015ish was the absolute push of all prior to their extremes. How much you’ve partied, amount or partners and luxury you have, ect. Now however I’m noticing something in odd in subculture. People want to bring punk back, styles keep being dug up from the grave and sold to masses like grunge and music waves like break core, lofi, synthwave and vaporwave have a very ghostly sound. Almost as if your chasing a better time you never even saw or was even born in. In other words chasing ghosts you once heard about
Actually writing a story that has this as a theme, the idea of fake culture, and how reality looks fake to a fake world
Liminal spaces: The Zeitgeist
Eidolon unseen or found
Embrace nature, reject what society tells you to buy
This comment doesn't read as pretentious but rather observant. If anything, people have gotten dumber that a well thought comment reads as pretentious.
As someone who is 20 years old I really don’t like the state of the world right now and I also feel like I don’t like most people my age cuz they are idiots or you don’t agree with my opinion then you’re a bad person I don’t know how to put it but it’s just sad
I am 17 and Autistic and I have an easier time socializing with older Adults than with people my age.
As a teacher, I can tell you the problem is the dominate culture. It encourages the behavior you don't like. And the schools (and the colleges) think they are being "cool" or relevant by perpetuating that culture.
@@DanteSimoncinisame!
Boomers: Why isn't that young people aren't having kids
Young people: why is minimum wage only enough for surviving when kids are expensive?
gerby werby sent me
Although I can applaud the effort, I think the video ultimately misunderstands what it was really like to live in the '60s and what caused these cultural shifts in the first place. It presents "Now and Then" as monotliths. Most young people in the 60's weren't hippies.
That is an imagined past.
Pop Culture from the time and your conjecture on modern politics is just not proper evidence. Operating in this abstract space will lead you to incorrect assumptions and potentially dangerous implications.
Pop culture IS culture.
Don't hold your breath, mythologising the past while simultaneously diagnosing the present political situation with nothing but vibes is the bread and butter of this entire genre of youtube video. People just respond to it based on whether they agree with the gist of what's being said or not.
@@azazelazel You're right, I do historical research and it just got to me that day for whatever reason :/
@@azazelazel as opposed to what idealizing a horrendous present, sound to me like you want to preserve the status quo
@@colorpg152 I have not made a value judgement on the present, nice try tho
I believe the 60's culture is also dictated to them by the Elders.
If every 3rd word is "obsession" you know its the 2020s
Hope life has bin treating you well alex glad to see you being active agen on your main Chanel and still showing this Chanel love too
Part of becoming an adult is realizing that the Beatles were revolutionary, but also overrated
Shot out from Gerby!
I just wanted to say thank you for making these excellent prodction. they dont get close to the traction they deserve, so thank you so much for making them anyway.
The 2020’s are like a weird hybrid of the 1890s and 1970s
I'm 27. Non-American, (from Latin America actually, and yes, I live there). It's funny how I was always a rebel since I was a teen, therefore my life has been stable, drug free, solid friends, stable relationships (despite being many, always on the ground of monogamy), no tattoos, etc. Currently enjoying my job and I'm the optimistic one of the team. The crazy thing is that a lot of my friends and office buddies see me as a sort of rockstar, just by saying "no" to post-modern ideals.
The instability of the cultural zeitgeist is gotten so chaotic, that I might even consider working a PhD in politics and embark into the political campaign. Only God knows what lies ahead, I just want to get fun out of the whole ordeal.
Me and my husband watch all your videos. Never commented one but let me tell you this is the best! You're always on point of your commenting and I love your perspective on every subject you bring to us. Keep up the amazing work! You're a true jam ! Much love from Portugal!
The 60's are a part of the cancer we have now, it was a vector that always pointed to the horrible situation we find ourselves in, a clear example is the Hart-Celler act of 65 (passed under the noses of Americans) that opened the doors for migration/demographics replacement. From that change stems the rise in crime, violence, the destruction of family, community, affordable housing, dignified entry level jobs etc. I like Santana, Strawberry Fields Forever, Zappa and all that good boomer rock, but they had no idea what they were talking about in most things outside of music, and all their naive, feel good messages have a direct correlation with the problems listed above. The 60's and 90's might be attractive, but they are stages of the same disease, they just seem quaint because the tumors had not advanced as much, yet they were there and being fed by the zeitgeist of each era.
"Et quand nous voyons ce qu’il y a en face, ce que trente ans de victoire des autres ont donné... Cette anarchie dans le monde... Quand nous voyons dans nos propres pays la décomposition des mœurs, la chute de la patrie, la chute de la famille, la chute de l’ordre social... Eh bien, vraiment, entre les deux, nous avions choisi le bon côté !"
couldn't agree more, actually, i always had the same thought as you wrote here, they were very good musicians and the late 60s and 70s might be the most revolutionary decade in the history of music but outside this area, they really didn't know what they were doing, can't blame them but it is true
Same here in the Netherlands, my father was a White Hippie and almost all of his friends were foreigners, he became a successful businessman and did well, he married my (Black Jewish) mother and later in life while he saw his Congolese, Indonesian, Angolan, Egyptian, and Iraqi friends succeed started to notice how he, as an indigenous White Dutchman, would often be discriminated against by the state.
The current state of the Netherlands doesn't even benefit immigrants, it has special rights and privileges for immigrants with lawyers, but the average immigrant isn't necessarily doing well, but they certainly have tonnes more rights and privileges than the indigenous population. What's obvious is that I, from a rural 98% White village will basically only see Hindustani, Turkish, Curaçaoleña, and Moroccan women ever working for the municipality at office jobs. Municipal office jobs seem to be 30% Dutch women, 60% women of the aforementioned backgrounds, and 10% men of various ethnicities being slight overrepresented among Muslim and Hindustani groups (with low ranking jobs being filled by Africans).
Unless the man is a contractor working for a private company you'd almost never meet a White indigenous Dutch male working in any government position.
I recently had to report a theft at a police station, literally every police officer there was a middle aged Black woman and they were all speaking in Spanish to each other and only rarely switched to Dutch. Then when I saw patrolling officers they were mostly White men, it seems like the comfortable safe jobs are given to Black and Muslim women and the dangerous jobs are given to males.
>replacement
get f'd my fellow white
So you wanna go to the golden times of the 40s. Brilliant dude.
This is content slop. Literally just opinion after opinion with no backing whatsoever. It's meant to make you feel good if you agree with it, and make you go away if you dislike it. Another log for the algorithm fire. No critical thinking. Even if you agree with what's said in this video (I don't) you should stop watching this slop.
vibe based content.
i disagree with like. half the talking points of the OP. however i still watched the whole video because disagreeing doesn't prevent critically analyzing what is said
1960s - “Ok, let’s balance things out.”
2020s - “Ok, let’s balance things out.”
17:58 i mostly agree with this point but as a Ukrainian i feel like good amount of Americans don't understand russia-ukraine war. And they really shouldn't but some people allow themselves to talk to much about topics they have no understanding of.
18:27 that again, you can't negotiate with Russia at all. They've already promised that won't invade as but still, 24th of February happened.
As a person who would definitely become a hippie back in the 60's, I find this incredibly painful and also tiring
To be fair many metal bands are conservative
I think he was just using it as a stand in for "edgy" music that isn't actually transgressive or principled in some way at all, it's just more consumerist or leftist garbage.
Of course Heavy Metal bands are going to skew to the (revolutionary) right, they embrace vitality and energy.
@@RingworldTyrant Strange because progressives usually listen to hip hop and despise metal. Seen many folks label it "fascistic."
Some. But you can't deny that metal/rock n' roll was bought and sold ages ago. It's not "cool" to be a conservative metalhead. If you say something right leaning you'll be shamed and ostracized, like Ted Nugent for example. The only ones that are "free" to speak their mind and are supported are those who parrot mainstream ideas. It's how we got to Tenacious D making that "joke" the other day, and don't forget the audience laughed at it.
Rock and Metal used to stand for something and convey a message about our societies. Nowadays there is no message. Only the big ones that follow orders and the others who are too afraid to speak up.
This is why rock is truly dead.
Wow history works in cycles who would have guessed lmao
Straus-Howe Generational Theory
If the 1960s was the beginning of atheistic liberalism, was the 1980s the "last stand" of the old conservative order?
The 80s was the beginning of neoliberalism, which codified 60s social liberalism into law while also embracing free market economics at all costs.
Wow this really is an underrated video
THE FOURTH TURNING IS THE OPPOSITE OF THE SECOND TURNING
The most ironic part of all of it; The people who poineered the movements in the 60s are the ones responsible for the current state of our country today.
Gerby was right, this is a good video
Facts
Gerb crew
RUNNING IN THE 90s
The US government is controlled by large corporate interests. The reason the US government doesn't want to end the war in Ukraine and Israel is because they are subservient to the interests of the military industrial complex. They need to test out their latest weapons on the battlefield and net record profits.
As a Gen Z myself, I can say that the counterculture of today is different than left and right. The counterculture is all about being genuine and real. It is about not following typical political bulls***. We are significantly more centrist generation. We have frequent political debates and because of our large access to media. We have a wide understanding of the world. Whether The knowledge we ascertain is correct or not is up to be determined however we do have significantly more knowledge available to us than previous generations. That is not to say that all Gen Z people are smart, because we have so much knowledge at our finger it is so much easier for those who are naturally gifted to become extremely smart. I believe Gen Z is learning from previous generations as all previous generations have learned from one another. Whether humanity likes it or not, we are the future, and though we have an intimate
understanding of nihilism, we will have to carry this world on our shoulders soon.
Very interesting production, what only 60 years of history can change in society. But I just want to add one thing, I do not believe most people want the war in Ukraine to continue, they want the US to help Ukraine, but not because they want a war spectacle, but because they know Russia won't just stop the war and Ukraine will be severely hurt by the inevitable Russian victory if nobody supported them. If they were to send not just equipment, but people, then many will not want to go. Not because they think this will make the war stop or everything will be alright, that is not possible, but because they will not want to risk dying for another country even if they want the war to stop and for Ukraine to be left alone.
Russia has tried to stop the war through negotiations with Ukraine since last year. The problem is that NATO & USA are hardcore warmonger profiteers & they always escalate the war. If you notice, the West can't go on a year without at least a war somewhere to sell ammunitions to. It's part of their money laundering operation I'm not a Ruskie at all, I couldn't care less about either side. I am annoyed by how so many Westerners just buy into every single lie that their media feeds them.
But since 2014, Ukraine adopted banderism as semi-official national identity
And? @@Embrod
@@Bahrtuk and it's chauvinism, directly influenced by some Austrian painter.
@@Embrod Austrian painter was right
Another top tier and great production! My day is always better when a Hex video comes out, even though almost every video shows how my generation is a failure.
OK, no.
First of all, when I was a teen in the early 1970s, half of us wished that it was still the 1960s, and the other half wished that it was still the 1960s. That is when the nostalgia trend basically started.
Secondly, then as now, the people who influenced the boomers now were not boomers. They were older than that.
third, the 1970s didn't have political extremists? Better get your memory checked. Remember the Black. Panthers, the Symbiones Liberation. Army? The weather Underground? The Yipees? The up against the wall. Mother. f--ers? And I could name many many more on the left. A LOT more. There were also Nazis and Klansmen, John Birchers, around then, too.
And lots and lots of people believed in some form of Socialism, but they generally wanted lots and lots of personal freedom. The counter culture was basically the Anti-authoritarian left, aside from some straight up. Communist groups. Cults, etc.
Also, global warming is. very real and it's good that some.young people are trying to combat it, and I wish that more of them were.
And that's just the first eight minutes, when I stopped watching it.
And A.I.M. Leonard Peltier is still in jail, btw.
I like this video, it’s a good concept and most of it is pretty substantially right, like the demographics, and I’d say the war part too.
We pretty obviously politically disagree so that will affect how we see things, I see polyamory rising for example. Not even just in progressive spaces either. I think the 8 million genders talk is also much more of a zoomer original idea than climate change.
But the biggest thing I see as being the opposite vibe is cultural fragmentation vs consolidation. In the 1960s television and mass media were really on the rise. Most boomers got the same culture pretty consistently. Now with algorithms separating people, there’s a much larger cultural disunity.
jerma chat being stock footage hits different
Bro I'm so stoned.
Okay...so it's not the opposite in EVERY way
@@bjornironside4674 I think it is in a way: You were high on outdoor-grown weed in the 60s to free your mind and be open to new ideas, a new way of life and to get connected to people. Now you're stoned from high potency indoor weed or extracts to numb your mind, don't think deeply about the state of society and to be happy alone in front of a screen.
hell yea
I think your video is mostly insightful, however regarding optimism my parents (who were kids to teens in the 1960s) claim that they were worried about nuclear war. Also in movies and TV of the 1950s through the 1970s there was an entire genre of post-apocalyptic sci-fi movies. They were also concerned about overpopulation and the environment.
Something I thought you could have added was the music of the 2020s, there seems to be none, at least within the pop culture or youth culture. I do hear lots of new music, but very little is in the mainstream. Whenever I ask those who are younger than 25 what music they listen to they usually tell me they listen to music from 30 years ago. That's not totally crazy because I listened to older music when I was a kid too, but I think the 2020s is really missing something new and rebellious in music (not even lyrically, but musically).
was enjoying the vid until you started going from facts to just your opinions
I hardly see any nuance in this video.
Agreed. I've been curious about the demographic shifts from the 60s to 20s, I think that was touched on very well. After a while, it sorta felt like fear mongering, anticipating a far right reaction, I've seen similar stuff in other CZcamsrs such as Whatifalthist. I wonder if it's just coincidence or these guys know what they're talking about. Guess we'll just have to live to find out
i wasn't even conceived during the 90's and i miss them so much, there is almost no hope nowa days and the 80's and 90's look so amazing
(edit) 5:30 well damn, called out fast
At 28 years old, I feel as though I shouldn't be in this time period. I would rather have been born in the early 1940's tbh.
while I do believe everything you say is 100% true; as an incredibly young person in modern day, I feel much more optimistic about my generation's future, not based in hard facts but rather hope, and a firm belief that I can change the world how I wish. Just the idea that I am optimistic, makes a positive future more possible. So, I say, rather than dreading our future, choose to be optimistic just because you can.
Haha, I remember when I still had hope for humanity. Those were the days 🥲
I'd say the 2010's and 2020's are a horrible Hollywood remake of the 1960's, a bizarro version that is amplifying all the worst elements of the original and discarding what worked, all while still acting like it's basically still the same thing.
One of your best videos Alex! I always wondered why music of today sounds shit in comparison to the 60s.
Blame corporations for monopolizing the music industry.
Blame ((((them)))) for monopolising the music industry. @@spicewilliam9786
Mainstream music*
Yeah, good correction. @@Embrod
Because you only remember the hits.
You had a good premise, but you then proceeded to sprinkle in little bits of "rightist" bait, unfortunate
You need more evidence dude
Amazing video, you've gained a subscriber dude
Great video. Keep them coming.
Keep grinding bro. Your channel is gonna blow up. Incredible work.
The 1960s were a spiritual awakening, the 2020s are a secular crisis.
more like a bullshit awakening. let's not forget about all fake gurus who was profiteer like crazy during New Age boom and let's name at least one who wasn't fake
Are you legitimately shitting on climate change for being mainstream? "Its not a grassroots movement but a cultural convention" and that delegitimizes it? Murder being the capital crime of our society was a convention from before we were born, so is it stupid to believe murder is bad because it wasn't a grassroots political and moral uprising of our own? Otherwise, why bring it up.
I felt god by listening to a warhammer40k fan made song.
Picture this : the emperor of mankind sing "one" of metallica on the rythm of "i will survive" titled "what the emperor think on his golden throne"
And then it struck me
A man with the power of a god screwed half dead half alive on the symbol of his glory with no other feelings than his own thought. Praying god to be freed
And on top of it, i saw a god in the flesh of a man, nailed to the symbol of his glory, screaming why the father abannoned him
The atheist god-like man praying for a god on his throne
Then the man-like god loosing his faith on the cross.
The union of the sickest and deepest despairs with the proudest and the highest hopes.
I am so happy that you come back to make bring us this masterpiece of a video 😊😊
Back in high school, listening to songs talking about resistance and being the counterculture, I always thought it was just a sort of fringe "hey, look at me! I'm so cool!" type thing.
But now, a decade or so later, I've found myself *in* the counterculture for simply having more traditional standards and wanting to simply live a normal, quiet life.
Growing up, I never thought being a decent human being with half a brain cell would be the counterculture, or so detrimental to a peaceful living.
The silent generation always becomes the hero generation. They are quiet for a reason. The world is unraveling right before them. They are young now, but watch out. When the crisis hits. They will fight and bring back the light just like they have always done. And their kids will be like the boomers and xers, hedonistic, selfish and having it too good. I’m 92. I’ve seen a lot.
How is abortion immoral? Usually when it occurs the fetus is not developed enough to fully experience pain.
It seems to me that Americans are missing something key in this moment in time. We are all staring at our phones when we should be taking physical real-world actions to change the way things are
Regardless of the political leanings of the boomers, they were only able to live as they did (they were only as FREE as they were) because of the economics of the day, which were exactly the opposite of what the Libertarians believe to be beneficial. The wealthy were taxed in the extreme, the minimum wage was relatively high, public works projects were huge (the national hwy system, the space race, military spending, etc), trade agreements favored American manufacturers, etc. They turned against exactly that which gave them all that they had.
Ok then explain why the US government is a bigger part of the economy now than in the 60s
Thank you for this 🙏🏻
No generation gap in the music circles I travel in. We are all songwriters and storytellers, regardless of age.
there were no hippies in my country and the 60s were very different than usa but still i can relate what you feel brother
Now it’s August and 2024 is starting to feel like 1968
There isnt a more accurate video on CZcams
Dang...I read the title as the 2020s are the opposite of the 1990s.
Without looking into it too much (but I did notice it when watching the video), I'd place the map in the 1980s. After the unification of Vietnam, and before the fall of the Berlin wall and the break-up of the USSR and Czechoslovakia. South Africa still controls Namibia as well.
You had some good ideas (as well as some bad ones) in this video, but showing Andrew Tate and Pearl Davis representing a return to life-long, happy marriages... Are you serious?
conservative thoughty2 isn't real, he can't hurt you...
conservative thoughty2:
words hurt durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Pearl is a chameleon, don`t trust her.
It must have been very easy to virtue signal about peace, love and diversity in the UK, in the 1960s - surrounded by 99% British people with a shared culture and enough money to buy a house.
One of the best channel ever quality content always never stop
This is excellently written, and i especially liked that you discussed music at the end.
Great points but I don't understand how you can argue for negociations with Russia. Like, historically speaking when have they honoured ANY agreement with the civilized world? It's why we're here. You proposing the same action will lead to the same consequences, it's obtuse.
They honored the Minsk agreement and the West didn't.
@@komisossoutsidi5801 you are living in opposite world lol
@@chrisrosenkreuz23 yeah the opposite of the delusional state you've allowed yourself to be put in
@@komisossoutsidi5801 What is this "West" you speak of? Is it a country that no one has heard of? In your twisted mind perhaps a people should stop fighting for what is theirs because an imperialist power has decided it. If so, then Africa surely belongs to this collective West. You should learn some history before commenting on matters that you know nothing about.
You are very organized and to the point and elaborating when needed as a fun fact feel i applaude you sir 👏😌
What can I say, but the "times, they are a-changin' "?
Another thing about the Vietnam/Ukraine thing: in Vietnam, the Americans (and various Western allies) had sent soldiers to fight while the Russians sent weapons and other military equipment with their army being kept out, which is opposite to what is happening in Ukraine (though obviously without the trees speaking Vietnamese)
This channel is for those types of people that like to pretend they live in a different world that they actually live.
This video has validated everything I’ve already seen going on in the world. Maybe its you who isn’t living in the real world?
@@mrsentencename7334 no, im right all of you are wrong.
@@user-xp8nq5mf9y ah I guess that settles it then damn
What only 1k views? Thought it was at least 12k. Video deserves a lot more views!
My favorite shape centric CZcamsr is back!
NO no No... DON'T GIVE ME HOPE. Your title makes me happy.