The feel of the 2010's
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version
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Piketty publishing a mammoth book on economics called Capital then admitting he'd never really read Marx was astonishing.
version
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I mentioned it alongside the fandom stuff. I wasn't on it, but some people are adamant it's been a major influence. That place and 4chan seem to have been incubators for the two poles of the current culture war.
WashYourHands
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ISIS mid-decade, beheadings weren’t new I mean who hasn’t seen cia spy in Iraq cut diagonally open by a sword neck down and across to spine or a friend pre Rick rollin sending links with masked urls for beheadings listed by ratings
the one mass killing ‘event’ carried out on this incredible Med beach looking place with multiple casualties camera on a crane-bedded truck zooming roaming aerial shots = jfc, imagine Goebbels seeing their production editing, he’d be enraptured
people had to lose their privacy to begin valuing it - consolidation of greater privacy intrusion and monitoring, all the moronic busts that ten years previously would’ve gone on without interruption subsequently get a prosecution from FB updates. Friends Reunited was the clincher, if you didn’t learn from that when every mong at school you ever met was going “remember when” and you couldnt even put a face to their name
weird times to mature into adulthood - liminal, shifting, transient, gestational
the one mass killing ‘event’ carried out on this incredible Med beach looking place with multiple casualties camera on a crane-bedded truck zooming roaming aerial shots = jfc, imagine Goebbels seeing their production editing, he’d be enraptured
people had to lose their privacy to begin valuing it - consolidation of greater privacy intrusion and monitoring, all the moronic busts that ten years previously would’ve gone on without interruption subsequently get a prosecution from FB updates. Friends Reunited was the clincher, if you didn’t learn from that when every mong at school you ever met was going “remember when” and you couldnt even put a face to their name
weird times to mature into adulthood - liminal, shifting, transient, gestational
linebaugh
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Versions said this before but what marks the 10's from the 20's is that liberals had not gone completely hysterical yet. In this way I thought of nominating jon stewart as the man of the decade. Smug smiling face secure in the big nothing that was the decade. Perpetual victory laps everynight as everything had already been decided and put to bed. I remember hearing all the time that the future of politics was just a waiting game for the old people to die off. I dont know if smarter people were predicting the 20's but it says something that that was the cliche that was trickling down to me, a highschooler
linebaugh
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Actually what could the most important fahsion development of the 10's was men dressing like this 
And I know that this look is an an algamation of much older fashion choices, but theres something about the simplification of frat and prep aesthetics, 'dad vibes,' and its adoption as a style outside of universities that feels signifigant and unique to the 10's. Maybe this was uniqie to the south, but i remember it came like the wind. Suddenly a summer had passed and everyone now dressed this way. The boys in the neighborhood, the kids at school. Something changed.
And I know that this look is an an algamation of much older fashion choices, but theres something about the simplification of frat and prep aesthetics, 'dad vibes,' and its adoption as a style outside of universities that feels signifigant and unique to the 10's. Maybe this was uniqie to the south, but i remember it came like the wind. Suddenly a summer had passed and everyone now dressed this way. The boys in the neighborhood, the kids at school. Something changed.
linebaugh
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You think? In my head its the pac sun aesthetic which is a 2010s phenomena i feel but could be wrong. Skater aesthetics made popular in the 00's and then made a kind of default boys fashion choice in the 10s
dilbert1
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It was popularized in the mid 00s by Bape, Pharrell's companies, that Rogue Status one with all the guns on it that Rob Dyrdek rocked hard around ‘06, streetwear etc. I guess it didn’t totally go away so I take your point about a new default. Pretty dated looking now.
craner
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@linebaugh and @dilbert1 I love the wardrobe notes and they are very important, but what do they tell us about the different decades? Decode the threads for us!