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⭐Windsor, Ontario: it's a Tuesday... and I can't help but day dream of my summers in Italy with my family. No, not in Tuscany.... or Rome... or the Amalfi Coast.... in a small village up on a mountain in the south of Italy, named, Maione. I couldn't tell you the population.... maybe 500 people? a lot less? probably...
While i was born in Canada, my blood is all old world roots. The food, the air, the scenery, it just hits different.
Look around you.... they've tricked you into thinking modern, clean, minimalist esthetic is luxury.
Every new construction build has gray exteriors, gray fake wood flooring, white kitchens and a cookie-cutter lay out that has you thinking you're living in an insane asylum. I mean, you kinda have to be insane if you think spending $1,000,000 on a shit built condo is worth it.
look around you....
everyone is dressed the same, consuming the same content, drinking matcha lattes, doing pilates in their basic, boring brown-colored one piece sets...
streetwear used to mean something.... it was the underground.... it was the push against the status quo....
Today, streetwear means wearing the same esthetic so that you can post it on social media, to become an influencer.
no styles, no tastes... just mainstream streetwear. WTF. that's like an oxymoron.
Look at the state of social media....
most content creators are a copy cat of a copy cat of a copy cat...
we now use the word "trending" as if it has importance...but in my opinion, it just shows you where the sheep are. same audio, same transitions, same cringe content with no meaning. all in the name of vanity. all in the name of more views.
you're all part of the problem. including me. I'm here to change that.
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😃i am (early?) gen z so i was very much a child during this period
with that said, don’t be fooled by youtube drum and bass playlists or weepy-eyed disney channel retrospectives - much of the mainstream culture of this era was insanely bad. that is obviously still true today, but the difference is that the monoculture was still alive in the 2000s, so your ability to opt-out and find subcultural niches that had cool stuff going on was significantly curtailed compared to today. you basically *had* to be literally anorexic to be conventionally attractive, there was no political “left” to speak of (not that it mattered to me when i was a literal child but still), and as others have mentioned, insane 9/11 hysteria lasted well into the obama era.
with all that said the thought of having to grow up today is honestly terrifying. i am old enough that social media did not become culturally dominant until high school (i had a dumbphone until freshman year), and i do feel blessed to have grown up on a pre-web 2.0 internet. you still were able to buy things and own them. a huge number of the greatest games of all time came out during this period, and every mainstream multiplayer release wasn’t just a casino with a mid fps attached to it. amazon had yet to completely conquer the earth. the government kind of worked. i don’t think i would go back because i’ve been spoiled by the sheer volume of amazing things that i have access to today and i do think we’ve made some solid sociopolitical progress, but there are definitely some things i miss
with that said, don’t be fooled by youtube drum and bass playlists or weepy-eyed disney channel retrospectives - much of the mainstream culture of this era was insanely bad. that is obviously still true today, but the difference is that the monoculture was still alive in the 2000s, so your ability to opt-out and find subcultural niches that had cool stuff going on was significantly curtailed compared to today. you basically *had* to be literally anorexic to be conventionally attractive, there was no political “left” to speak of (not that it mattered to me when i was a literal child but still), and as others have mentioned, insane 9/11 hysteria lasted well into the obama era.
with all that said the thought of having to grow up today is honestly terrifying. i am old enough that social media did not become culturally dominant until high school (i had a dumbphone until freshman year), and i do feel blessed to have grown up on a pre-web 2.0 internet. you still were able to buy things and own them. a huge number of the greatest games of all time came out during this period, and every mainstream multiplayer release wasn’t just a casino with a mid fps attached to it. amazon had yet to completely conquer the earth. the government kind of worked. i don’t think i would go back because i’ve been spoiled by the sheer volume of amazing things that i have access to today and i do think we’ve made some solid sociopolitical progress, but there are definitely some things i miss
Jul 20, 2025
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Song slaps. I feel like I'm about to achieve enlightenment when the beat drops. Give it a try.
Feb 27, 2025