/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>14427488
lel that's my original file. Show-Ya is awesome. This is from the time before they went full metal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ8e1Vvqar4

I have this stubborn obsession with the 80s, regardless whether it's Japan or Western culture.

Cars, electronics, media, pop culture... everything followed the same schematics as today of trying to fulfil some idealised/romanticised mental construct which was simply based on the average human desires of wealth, well being and ultimately procreation. However, back then everything wasn't so incredibly artificial. You could be a dirt poor proletarian and still relate to idols, because there was still a recognisable human being underneath all the plastic. The separation of economic classes in the population is so big today, we're almost heading towards feudal times again.

Even though the average wealth has subjectively increased, we're so unhappy because our expectations are higher than ever from the constant comparisons to fabricated worlds we perceive as 'real' through the internet/marketing etc. Just look at the sick show people orchestrate on social media to receive some form of confirmation. Ah... shit, I feel like an old man typing this. Maybe I'm just one of those 'good old times' idiots.