What are you listening to right now (2025-01) Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[boredjedi]

Yeah, you never know when your time is up

Patty Donahue cancer age 40 December 9, 1996

Dolores O'Riordan 46 January 15, 2018
Wonder if she knew taking that bath would be her last

[boredjedi]

Ahhh… my Minecraft childhood in one video 😌 ….

Notch, the creator of Minecraft, is working on Minecraft 2. Well he made a statement
the other day it'll be a spiritual successor to it since he can't use that name anymore
being sold to Microsoft and all.


Anyway, Lazytown Animal Crossing

[Fairy-Possum]

Notch, the creator of Minecraft, is working on Minecraft 2. Well he made a statement
the other day it'll be a spiritual successor to it since he can't use that name anymore
being sold to Microsoft and all.

The statement was something else. It gave me the impression that he doesn't really care or know what he's going to do. Also that money is his primary motive ("Hello! I like money!")

[BRBFBI]

It really fascinates me how you can see how times have changed from the lyrics of songs.

It strikes me that your examples are like rocks in a river, each one slightly slowing the current of cultural change. It's the same with books. If they didn't exist culture could change very rapidly. If people get most of their entertainment from content creators and twitter (I am guilty of watching way too much youtube and not reading enough books) then they're like loose sand which is easily shaped by the flow of the river.

I think it must be a good thing to have the perspective of what used to be culturally acceptable so you can make an educated choice in how you behave. It's a bit disturbing when media is retroactively changed to fit in with modern sensibilities. This happens a lot with re-releases of older games, but it can even happen with books as happened somewhat recently with Roald Dahl's works being updated by the rights-holders to reflect sensibilities in the 2020s. If nothing else it's a shame because one might like the particular flair of British writers in the '60s, but according to this line of thinking it's better to be homogeneous than risk offending.

[BRBFBI]

Oh, and my song:

It's funny because I found this artist indirectly through Lazy Town. FrancisRG has a LMV on Youtube titled "Lets Dance" set to "Everytime we Touch" by Cascada, and there's an after credits scene set to the original song by Maggie Reilly, which I'd never heard before. I never knew the Cascada version was a cover, but since then I've quite liked Maggie Reilly's music.

[possessor]

Why not call it LTMV?

[BRBFBI]

From now on I will!

[possessor]

sweet!

[chuft]

It strikes me that your examples are like rocks in a river, each one slightly slowing the current of cultural change. It's the same with books. If they didn't exist culture could change very rapidly. If people get most of their entertainment from content creators and twitter (I am guilty of watching way too much youtube and not reading enough books) then they're like loose sand which is easily shaped by the flow of the river.

I think it must be a good thing to have the perspective of what used to be culturally acceptable so you can make an educated choice in how you behave. It's a bit disturbing when media is retroactively changed to fit in with modern sensibilities. This happens a lot with re-releases of older games, but it can even happen with books as happened somewhat recently with Roald Dahl's works being updated by the rights-holders to reflect sensibilities in the 2020s. If nothing else it's a shame because one might like the particular flair of British writers in the '60s, but according to this line of thinking it's better to be homogeneous than risk offending.

A very thoughtful post.

Yes, people in the West used to look with a mix of horror and amusement at how the Soviet Union used to airbrush people out of photos - rewriting history to make them disappear - when those people had fallen out of step with the current political power structure. Kind of like how people now look at stories about people that Putin doesn't like "falling out of windows." This kind of murder is terrifying yet absurd at the same time, everybody knows the person didn't just fall out of a window, the method of murder is sending a message. Repeated often enough it becomes a dark kind of comedy, as the Russians insist yet another inconvenient person has died accidentally in exactly the same way. Anytime someone criticizes Putin or otherwise is becoming an inconvenience, jokes immediately appear that they had better keep away from windows and preferably never go in buildings with more than one story.

The past is the past, and people then were no better or worse than now. It is a serious mistake, a loss, and a type of amnesia to try to rewrite it constantly to bring it into accord with today's values (which themselves will change). If you can't imagine yourself as being one of those people behaving in that way, then it just means you have a ridiculously high opinion of yourself and think somehow you have an inherent moral compass superior to everyone around you, and that in any time and circumstance that you would always behave in the "proper" way - the way, that is to say, that certain people would say you should behave today.

A human should be able to put themselves, in their mind, into the place of someone else, past or present, someone with a totally different upbringing, culture, set of beliefs, circumstances and so on and imagine what it would be like to be them - and what kind of person you might have been had you been raised in those circumstances. It is the worst kind of idiocy to think, for example, that people in past civilizations were evil or inferior in some way compared to us and that the things they did could never happen now. In fact things as bad or worse go on today than at any time in the past.

I have been enjoying the works, and other works inspired by them, of H.P. Lovecraft for longer than I will say here. A very long time. In recent years I have noticed when i try to discuss him or his works with younger people, I invariably get met with a remark that he was racist. (He died in 1937.) I am mystified by this. Yes, so what? Nobody is suggesting you should emulate him. If you cut yourself off from everything from the past because it offends your modern sensibilities, you have lost a great deal, and proven only that you are self-righteous - a fault, ironically, that is timeless.

There is also the matter of taking the best parts of life and discarding the rest. I am not a fan of Scientology, but that does not keep me from enjoying the movies of Tom Cruise a great deal. I don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

[BRBFBI]

The past is the past, and people then were no better or worse than now[...] If you can't imagine yourself as being one of those people behaving in that way, then it just means you have a ridiculously high opinion of yourself and think somehow you have an inherent moral compass superior to everyone around you, and that in any time and circumstance that you would always behave in the "proper" way - the way, that is to say, that certain people would say you should behave today.

I agree absolutely. I've seen this idea before somewhere, but in the context of intelligence rather than morals. It's ridiculous to feel superior to people of past civilizations since they were no less intelligent than people today, merely lacking the easy access to information that we have now.

If you cut yourself off from everything from the past because it offends your modern sensibilities, you have lost a great deal, and proven only that you are self-righteous - a fault, ironically, that is timeless.

Very well said.

My brother went through a period of reading a lot of Lovecraft a while back. He encouraged us all to read the short story Polaris. His close friend from college refused to read it on moral grounds.

The more the past is sanitized to meet today's expectations the more shocking the outliers will seem, and the easier it will be to dismiss them as my brother's friend did.

[boredjedi]

This is going to be a strange one.

New music from Jerry Cantrell (Guitarist/Vocals) the other half of Alice in Chains (I do miss Layne Staley vocals).
The first video is the music video and second one is a spoken word version.

[boredjedi]

[chuft]

I owned this 12 inch but like the rest of my large vinyl collection, it was lost when my parents threw it away while I was in California for graduate school.

[boredjedi]

Ouch that burns. Good song too.

[boredjedi]