Found this in the history thread, thought it belongs here.
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I'm neither american, nor have I watched/listened/played almost anything that came from the 90s, and even then I can understand that a good economy, lack of foreign threats, and a largely peaceful society will make the people of said society reach very a similar, and almost thoughttless, conclusions when it comes to how to leave their lives.
You don't need a 500-page long manifesto on whether or not your 1 dollar a gallon gas prices are good or not, or whether that girl who dumped you once before you met the love of your life is a good or bad person, or whether that old man that dislikes modern music because its filled with profanity does this out of some nefarious reason. You simply keep going and try to settle those disagreements peacefully if you care, or ignore them if you don't, and call it a day.
Rudie is literally unable to understand the circuses part of bread and circuses, he thinks that all points in history were some time of deadly and vital struggle over every discussion ever, while at the same time believing that cultures are something cyclical and that they will inevitably decay and degenerate at a certain point.
Rudyard is literally unable to understand what a culture where its biggest problems are gone, and thus they can focus on trivial manners, looks like, which coming from a well-off background sounds like either he was pampered as a child and told that he was grand character whose every action will shape the world, or had family dinamics more fucked up than a GoT character and thus should never be allowed near a position of power
Rudyard Lynch is literally uncapable of understanding what a positive attitude towards the future looks like. Something which, to me, is conforting, since all revolutionary movements that are founded on something other than hope collapse under their own negativity attitude, which means that his megalomanic and arrogant outlook will amount to nothing
He's right though, Blink-182 is ass. Bland, unoriginal, overproduced radio slop for the masses. Completely astroturfed.
That's not the point. The point is that a culture that lives in a state of long-lasting peace will always keep reiterating on what it already knows, which thought stagnant, is not neccesarily a bad thing, and that thing, a long standing peace, is something that Rudyard cannot understand