What are we like now?

[shiels]

Its your job, as an artist, to distill what we are and how weve changed and whats unique about the 2025 human

 

[shiels]

Thinking about the voice of Sam Cooke and the voice of the Weeknd. Reading dissensus posts from 2008 and 2025 and contrasting the qualities. Looking at old footage of clubs

 

[shiels]

The first words that will come to might be anxious, distracted, overstimulated

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

Hysterical. Nihilistic. Bored. That's the way people come across online, at least. You look through social media and it feels like they're constantly cycling through those three states, perhaps even experiencing all three at once.

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

Thinking about the voice of Sam Cooke and the voice of the Weeknd. Reading dissensus posts from 2008 and 2025 and contrasting the qualities. Looking at old footage of clubs

Did you see the vid doing the rounds contrasting Ibiza in 2000 and in 2024? Dunno whether both clips are actually from Ibiza and it's obviously edited to give a certain impression, but it resonated enough for people to take notice.

 

[germaphobian]

People's illusions have crumbled, which is a good thing, because in fact those were delusions.

 

[germaphobian]

The big problem of post-WW2 westerners was that they wanted (still do) to live like pensioners but party like teenagers, wanted history to move but also to stand still etc. etc.

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

People's illusions have crumbled, which is a good thing, because in fact those were delusions.

They'll probably be replaced by other ones.

 

[hmg]

The big problem of post-WW2 westerners was that they wanted (still do) to live like pensioners but party like teenagers, wanted history to move but also to stand still etc. etc.

2025 marks the start of the post-post-WW2 era.
The end of international law, multipolar, less American globally, more American locally.
What a time to be alive
Who will populate and characterize this era? It really is too early to say.

 

[wg-]

Everyone is a lot more vocally dramatic
Stoicism is dead

 

[Murphy]

It feels as if something has been turned inside out within our collective subconscious that reflects back and forth infinitely, amplifying a sense of dissonance

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Everyone is a lot more vocally dramatic
Stoicism is dead

Absolutely. You can see this on reruns of quiz shows and game shows from 30-40 years ago. We were like church mice.

 

[luka]

Absolutely. You can see this on reruns of quiz shows and game shows from 30-40 years ago. We were like church mice.

its becasue we've learned to perform for the cameras

 

[luka]

even in the very olden days people like wyndham lewis were talking about how the man and woman on the street learn to present themselves by imitating film stars etc but the process is now very advanced/

 

[shakahislop]

cameras are a disgusting technology

 

[luka]

it has to change the way you feel and act knowing you are (potentially) on film, even if its just cctv

 

[thirdform]

Its your job, as an artist, to distill what we are and how weve changed and whats unique about the 2025 human

no it isn't.

 

[thirdform]

your job is to anticipate, anticipate, and anticipate even more.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

even in the very olden days people like wyndham lewis were talking about how the man and woman on the street learn to present themselves by imitating film stars etc but the process is now very advanced/

The man in the street look much more like a film star in 1900 than in 2025, so Damian Lewis is way off.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

In some ways other people's eyes are like cameras, and also God used to watch people in the old days.