/lit/ - Literature

>>15431547
Supreme and all the other high-end skating shops.
I go outside all the time to the point where I no longer feel guilty by indulging at home for a day doing jack shit.

I go outside and what do I see? A technocratic society of people from well-off backgrounds who could afford an academic upbringing and are obsessing over this or that theory and apply it to the most agreeable subjects as anything else would contrast against their own worldview.
Every once in a while they safely express themselves in an authentic manner but mostly they're social hermits, retreated into their little social circles and never shuffling outward while their intellectual forefathers were at the very forefront of political change.
Twitter has become their battleground.

What else do I see outside? People who recognise in this silence a justification to do whatever they please and pleasure it is. The entire market is pleasure-based.

I see poor people struggling to make head or tails of this entire facade and I see a generation coping with radicalism and another, larger part completely corrupted by the nihilism.

What do I see? Let me paint you a picture:
Jackie is a 22-year old girl who struggled at school as she struggled with her identity. She likes to smoke weed, watch Netflix and she likes to cuddle with her cat.
She grew up watching kids cartoons which were consistently affirming the status quo, as she grew up she watched adults' cartoons that broke down some aspects of the status quo in favour of a larger, foreign one.

Nowadays Jackie is mostly occupied with self-expression through the use of theatre, hair colouring and other cosmetics. She has a healthy social life and maintains a social media account. She regularly watches porn or otherwise has casual sex. Jackie has an awkward relationship with her parents, but it's not in terrible shape though she doesn't get along very well with the male members of her family either because one of them tried to fuck her as a pubescent or because she can't fuck them. Silly paradox to wrap your head around.

Jackie tried exploring more refined culture, but she mostly got bogged down in pseud trash from Netflix. She once visited a nearby philosophy event with her three week old boyfriend where she paid to sit in on the lecture how netflix educates people in philosophy.

Vaguely, viscerally she knows that this ostensibly 'good' system has some major failings but since she's read at most a few books and learned about philosophy one way or another in very broad terms, she can't articulate her feelings.

Jackie doesn't have many opinions of her own. Jackie doesn't have a defined stance on whether she wants to have children.
Jackie thinks in terms of how they make her feel and what the tone is.
Jackie polices your tone and language.

Jackie ends up getting a well-paying job after completing a bachelors and now lives with her partner/spouse in a gentrifying neighbourhood and passes her time, her life. Day-to-day.