"The current obsession with nostalgia and remake culture is easy to understand when you realize that it's a symptom of a culture that isn't allowed to imagine a future."

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[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 87 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Or... Maybe for most of human history we re-told the same stories over and over again for thousands of years until the relatively recent concept of "intellectual property" has forbidden us individuals from doing what comes naturally, forming this sort of weird resentment for when corporations do it?

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

This is a real Im14AndThisIsDeep meme. More people have access to platforms where they can share their creative works than at any other point in human history, if you aren't seeing it then you're not really trying to find it. That point would be fair, too; its hard to find original content (even more so with the rise of AI-driven SEO). It's not the trend in hollywood, but hollywood doesn't define culture NEARLY as much as they'd like to think they do...)

[–] orrk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

nah, Hollywood defines culture more than you seem to accept.

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is defining culture the same as advancing culture?

[–] orrk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

fuck is "advancing culture" exactly? honest question, because the idea of culture advancing is a farce, it changes yes, but advancing is some constructionist idea that always draws from some authoritarian colonialist bullshit, example, the "advanced European culture" vs "the primitive non-Europeans"

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's a pretty good question. I 💯 agree that it can fall into authoritarian colonial bullshit, and in fact that's probably what I was thinking of in terms of 'defining' vs 'advancing'. I'll invoke the case of the 'Sad Puppies', a bunch of lame ass white men who were super mad that the Hugos were overwhelmingly going to 'not white men' (read: interesting BIPOC voices everyone loves and gasp......women?!).