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6/30/2025, 12:55:21 AM
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Zoomers need to enter a new period of invention, and they need to do it fast. We are at a crossroads where we may choose to revere an older generation or have a rubberneck fascination with what will be allegedly 'hip' and 'young' in the future. I would mention my Gen X parents generation who looked to what was popular in music and media among millennials. I feel like getting spoon-fed our culture by looking to the young will be misguided, inaccurate, and ungratifying. And conversely nostalgia, and blinding material sentimentality is certainly quite misguided. We see nerd culture becoming mainstream for instance among millenials. One should use derive from the past and from tradition diligently and soberly rather. We do needfully need to look back, yes.
My prescription: Gen Z men need to larp as blue collar, red-blooded males from a century prior, or as some sort of Victorian thing perhaps. And even if affordability doesn't permit having a very rich social life, I think we should behave as if we have a lively, bustling one. One can trick oneself into making it so.
I also think we should be very consistent aesthetically, and we should value the ubiquity of high quality goods. In the 50's it was cars, that era was the paramount of virtue with respect to the automobile. In the 18th and 19th century fine tailoring was our common code of excellence. These avenues are chivalric in my opinion.
Now as a generation where hoodies for instance are ubiquitous; and I'm not resenting this too much, or picking on anyone; I think we should opt not to be sentimental for it. I think we should rewrite our story with a strain of chivalry, love of virtue and splendour. Gen Z should preoccupy itself with invention and not with what is coming next as the cultural landscape will create by osmosis. And neither should we fall into a sentimental, nerdy spell as many have.
Zoomers need to enter a new period of invention, and they need to do it fast. We are at a crossroads where we may choose to revere an older generation or have a rubberneck fascination with what will be allegedly 'hip' and 'young' in the future. I would mention my Gen X parents generation who looked to what was popular in music and media among millennials. I feel like getting spoon-fed our culture by looking to the young will be misguided, inaccurate, and ungratifying. And conversely nostalgia, and blinding material sentimentality is certainly quite misguided. We see nerd culture becoming mainstream for instance among millenials. One should use derive from the past and from tradition diligently and soberly rather. We do needfully need to look back, yes.
My prescription: Gen Z men need to larp as blue collar, red-blooded males from a century prior, or as some sort of Victorian thing perhaps. And even if affordability doesn't permit having a very rich social life, I think we should behave as if we have a lively, bustling one. One can trick oneself into making it so.
I also think we should be very consistent aesthetically, and we should value the ubiquity of high quality goods. In the 50's it was cars, that era was the paramount of virtue with respect to the automobile. In the 18th and 19th century fine tailoring was our common code of excellence. These avenues are chivalric in my opinion.
Now as a generation where hoodies for instance are ubiquitous; and I'm not resenting this too much, or picking on anyone; I think we should opt not to be sentimental for it. I think we should rewrite our story with a strain of chivalry, love of virtue and splendour. Gen Z should preoccupy itself with invention and not with what is coming next as the cultural landscape will create by osmosis. And neither should we fall into a sentimental, nerdy spell as many have.
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