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Your guide to what US elections in 2024 mean for Washington and the world
This week is the answer to the new animated TV series Marvel, Your friendly neighborhood of Spider-Man, I was attracted by the eye: “I thought it was amazing. My biggest fear was that it would be unpleasant and awakened, and it wasn't. ”
My intrigue was particularly aroused by the fact that it came from a boorical commentator on GB News or free speech on X, but from a young man who expresses the spider himself: extravagantly named Hudson Thames, actor and singer based in Los Angeles headquarters , which is only about a year too old at the age of 30 to be considered a member of the Z.
After resistance from the online left – how does “annoy and awake” are dressed? – The producer of the show was forced to enter the actor's defense. “He is a person who deeply cares for the people around him and always tries to do the right thing,” Jeff Trammell said during the Q&A session. “I believe he simply caught up.”
I don't believe he actually did it if we mean “wrong” violations of an unspoken rule that says you have to, if you want to be employed in Hollywood, you have to write a specific line. The fact is that the hip is no longer or top to “wake up”, or even say you are. Creative young people want to be anti -pure and “awakened” feel the mainstream and these days virtually middle -aged. Instead it was just the latest sign of deep “Vibe Shift”. Say what you think – or at least see – is now cool; Stick to the prescribed social etiquette about what you can and you can't say is not.
Return Anti-HeroicWith this shift, a convicted criminal for the oval is closely linked. Young people turned right in the November elections, while Donald Trump won 56 percent of the male gene voters, according to the vote of Associated Press. AND Recent CBS survey They found that young people are most excited about any age cohort about Trump, with 67 percent of 18 to 29 years of age feel “optimistic” over the next four years, compared to only 51 percent of the age of 65 or more. Remember lasts About how Trump's Fox watched aging voters before he could re -choose? It doesn't seem like this to prove it.
But is Trump a symptom or cause of this cultural drift from everything that has been so dominant over the last decade and a half? Politics could be downstream from the culture, but when a politician in question is a cultural icon, it is a distinction between the direction of the flow – Hudson, Thames or another waterway, on this matter – somewhat more complicated.
Sean Monahan- “Trend Forecaster” first attributed to the term “Vibe Shift” in 2021 and for the post-normcore “before it-Trump is a product of a shift in culture that began due to Covid-199. That was when a kind of nostalgia began to be kept for less limited and funny time.
“Covid really pushed many people over the edge,” says Monahan. “Young people who felt as if they couldn't say what they were thinking, but they couldn't do what they wanted because they went to college through Zoom and it was illegal to go to parties in many places.” These things have come together with the general feeling that the past was a freer, more hedonist era. ”
Since then, Monahan believes that we have gradually moved into a new cultural phase called “aesthetics boom boom ”. It is just a striking consumption, spectacular manifestations of wealth and “superillain vibrations”. It is a kind of return for the last time when conservatism has captured culture: 80. With his Taste 80. Years in suits and musichis shameless wandering worthless cryptodoco, his presidential portrait of supervillain-esque-riff on his usual mugshotu-a his The opulent palace Palm Beachis someone better to capture this new cultural epoch than 47 alone?
Edmond LauThe luxury “memeologist” (YES) and the cultural strategist offers a similar evaluation of the cultural shift and Trump's place in it. Lau claims that we are moving from “light mode” embodied by disinfected, discreet luxury brands such as Aesop-like good progressive urban time at some point in their bathroom did not have a vial of resurrection? – for a new, more individual “dark regime”. Welcome in “Mask-off era”. “It is a rejection of virtue and accepting a bad habit,” Lau tells me. “It is about leaving the pretense that you are watching this set of social virtues.”
Signaling virtues is out of mode; The signaling vise is in. The right one is back, gold, and this time no one is ashamed of it.
