>>510862672
Zoomers just got mindrot from an already corroded entertainment industry, really. They were clearly running out of ideas sometime before the Tetris movie was announced.

Now, objectively speaking, you had some kind of mindset, a mentality of sorts, where people would do illegal drugs within a seemingly disciplined context solely for the purpose of doing creative work back in that period. They admitted to doing it quite often but at least made a pretense they were doing it for work purposes and not recreational purposes; this perhaps is actually crucial even if they were doing it in part for recreation. You'd still shout down dumb kids for wanting to do that stuff and using "creative work" as an excuse, obviously, but ultimately this led to a lot of people who just did weed because lmao dude weed thinking they were 10/10 Picassos who deserved awards for doing marijuana, and this combined with the common participation trophy mentality of the era into a system where random dudes who did marijuana were rewarded solely for that reason and people who didn't do drugs were ignored. We probably haven't had any good media come out of druggies in 30 years despite the fact more people are doing drugs than ever. Even most of the actors in the movies are on drugs, and the musicians regularly sing about drugs directly.

In hindsight, I never believed the Beatles' thing about how they were only doing drugs for work purposes and never did it for fun, but I'm starting to come around to it. All of these modern artists do such intense drug dosages they end up dying or going into comas or something to get high and it never works. (It probably substantially doesn't work because they're rappers, anyway, but I digress.)