/pol/ - International /Pol/itics & /Bant/er

TRUE Revolutions are generational in nature and involve changing the existing world. Under normal circumstances, they are suppressed by various methods of subversion, which require the older, ruling generations to understand the mindset of the (potentially) revolutionary generation.

In the development of mentality, there are eras that do not necessarily coincide with long historical periods, such as antiquity, the middle ages, etc. These epochs arise from the development of culture and the accumulation of its products - the creations of generations - which can be experienced by younger generations, and boundaries of these epochs are defined by catastrophes resulting in the loss of records of the existing culture.

In the past, cultural peaks occurred rarely because diffusion took place slowly and there were no widely available means of recording. Today, all cultural works are recorded, reproduced, and made available immediately, which greatly increases their accessibility. Generations being born today have access to the entire recorded cultural heritage at their fingertips, and the culture of the last hundred years is particularly well documented.

The mindset of older generations is no mystery; there is no room for secrets or pretense. Their own culture was not based on irony, it was a true fascination with some fashion, theme, music, political stance (whether shilled/subversed or not (by the preceding generation!)) Faced with this overload, the culture of today's youth is based on sarcasm and irony, which is incomprehensible to older (ruling) generations, that would normally achieve subversion through replication, contamination, etc. and further petrify the system. In attempting to appropriate today's youth culture, the older generation makes a fool of itself because it fails to understand that this culture is based on irony. This fulfills the condition for either the end of an era (a catastrophe) or a revolution. There are no more tricks, promises and rug-pulls left.

inb4 Postmodernism - no, this must've happened earlier and isn't a result of philosophy, but the postmodern, or even post-ironic perspective does encourage it.