Post-Culturalism - The Age of the Digital Serfdom
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I’m glad you also brought up the grave possibility that all this lack of commonality could move past things like effecting not only things like culture and entertainment, but things like international relations.
It will do. There is only one outcome.
Much appreciate this talk. Rick Beato's interview with Ted Gioia a few days after your video covers some very similar terrain.
I imagine they are concentrating mainly on the MusicBizTM, but it affects EVERYTHING, even the gaming industry which was relatively new is facing the same issues. As a society, the western world is hitting a cultural event horizon.
The overall damage of technology making people live at 95 miles per hour instead of 40 will eventally wipe out most people ( stress and other maladies will catch up with everyone in time )
You hit the nail square on the head here Darren
Illuminating talk. Thanks.
Random responses to your thoughtful and thought-provoking take on post-culturalism.
When you say "culture," I think you mean mass, corporate-sponsored culture.
Culture per se is a much broader term, as you know. Folksongs, superstitions, food (especially family recipes), and children's rhymes are also culture. Those they are transmitted over space and time without benefit of corporate or church sponsorship. Or printing presses.
Even in the era of the phonograph and radio, most bands started out in bars and clubs before they had distribution. Most famously, perhaps, the core of the Beatles started in 1956 as the Quarrymen and they played clubs for years with no record deal. If you were in Liverpool or Hamburg, they were part of your culture. If you were in London or Pittsburg, they weren’t. It wasn’t until 1962 that they put out a record and appeared on TV, becoming part of British culture. It wasn’t until In 1964 when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show that they became part of world culture.
Unquestionably the transmission of mass-culture is bound up with technology, as you noted. But even in their early Cavern Club days, the Beatles depended on mass culture-records and radio-as influences.
Sometimes the transmission itself is the culture-As McLuhan noted, “the medium is the message.” Doomscrolling on mobile phones is now our culture-regardless of the content. Going to the cinema every week was once our culture. TikTok itself or CZcams is now our culture.
An element that’s worth exploring more deeply is the audience. Culture creates and defines an audience, but at the same time the audience supports and enables the culture.
Despite shrinking attention spans and fragmented algorithmically driven distribution, we still have a few worldwide cultural touchstones-e.g. Taylor Swift and the Eras tour.
Cancel culture is very old, isn't it? Socrates... canceled. Jesus... canceled. And yet, neither one was canceled for long.
I found your thesis very interesting -we re living in a period of time when we have anything we want -music/records art theatre TV -- film in some ways we re very lucky-perhaps too lucky and we all take it for granted!
Choice paralysis. You have the potential to choose anything, but end up choosing nothing.
Just want to say 'thank you very much' for this video. I like your thought and knowledge on this topic and treating the watcher with respect.
Some great points Darren. I've felt like this about film for a while.. nothing that interesting for a while now (except Dune but that's just a take on IP from the 60's). The only thing that people seem to talk about in unison now is the odd Netflix show.. depressing!
But all human experience is now individual and often served by algorithm, which is individually tailored to your own previous choices. This completely destroyed the idea of a cultural community or cultural zeitgeist. Even with Netflix (or insert streaming platform here), popular shows are not seen at EXACTLY the same time and so people binge, some people are on catchup, etc - so there's no real shared experience of watching, which leads to a rather disjointed, out-of-phase cultural memory. This is why there are no memes or viral adverts or videos any more. Our cultural landscape is completely and utterly fragmented and broken. This is the opposite of what culture is supposed to be, so it is being replaced by an almost religious fervour towards social issues.
I have been watching your content for many years now even though i dont comment much but what you're talking about here is why i continue to do so. What we need is for extraterrestrial's far more advanced than us to arrive and make contact to save us from this stale existence we lead... of course that will never happen lol.
Well l'm glad you found it useful.
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‘People don’t want see old things’ ..looks at Darrens previous four videos before this one. You to still seem to want old things Darren. You daughters listening to 44 years old Talking Head tracks.(nothing wrong with that btw) Interesting video, flawed arguments at times imo. At times it seems like a 44 minute personal rumination decrying modern music & ‘woke culture’ camouflaged as ‘Post Culturalism.’ How we absorb culture has certainly changed massively in the last 10 years....but I don’t see it as leading to a dystopian nightmare. One odf us will be probed to be right...let’s find out the hard way! 😂
Yeah…I’m completely and utterly wrong! 👍
@@TheDarrenLock not at all, it’s a really good video. I’ve been reflecting on for the last hour. I could probably meet you halfway! 😆
Well the reason my daughter enjoys Blur is because she heard some of the new album and worked backwards. I’m also her tastemaker, so she’s hardly representative of young folk as most of those have zero interest in music at all. If people can’t get new things, then they will go back for old things, but I think I was specifically talking about the cultural zeitgeist that we used to have, which has virtually disappeared now - just look at how the movie industry is suddenly dying.
@@TheDarrenLock tastemaker...or human algorithm? I’m joking..I’m joking! Yeah we Definately come at this from different angles. I see the splintering of culture & ability to bypass record companies as a positive, I’ve listened to your music..that wouldn’t have happened 25 years ago..certainly the days of a mass movement like punk/Britpop have passed, it’s simply not possible anymoreaas you say everything’s too fractured. Is that a bad thing? I’m not sure.
I'd trade it all it to return to the "old days". I used to make my own tapes & CDs anyway, so I'd just do it all via mail order - the old fashioned way! The current climate isn't particularly healthy for our young people and I see everything they are missing out on and everything that is damaging their development. The internet and social media and that tiny insidious handheld computer just makes the young folk incredibly miserable and actually limits their ability to be well-rounded, creative individuals. Oh well, what do I care? I had a good time. Fuck 'em all, eh...
I followed until you mentioned pornography, and then I tuned out and obsessed over that instead. As one does..
That was to weed out the weak minded… 🤔
@@TheDarrenLock Nah just being jokey, I watched the whole thing and waited for your point, and I think I got it. Even my tiny brain got it. So this is why I have nostalgic feelings towards that day in 1991 when it felt like the entire school traveled to town after school to purchase GNR Use Your Illusion 1 & 2, and every store carried a sale on it on release to gain as many customers as possible that day. I felt I belonged to something!
That is one of the points. And this lack of cultural cohesion has been replaced by social movements instead, which ultimately is a futile, unproductive exercise as it doesn’t inspire the imagination or the creative impulse.
@@TheDarrenLock Well perhaps the world will implode then, or perhaps we’re just old dorks. What do you tell your kids when they look to you for hope?