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Quote: (08-16-2018 02:09 PM)louiebeans Wrote:
We have no identity anymore. Its offensive to be a proud white American in most cities. Every race except white people has another identity to fall back on. My family is from a long line of people who came here in the 1800's, I have no way of going back to England, Germany, France, or even knowing where I came from.
Thank you for sharing this video. I love the gayety of spirit that seems to fill everyone in the store. These aren't just moments of simpler times to be relished as a memory, I think, but a great reminder that life can and ought to be this way. It means a lot to me as an artist as a demonstration of the value of good humour. Everyone who appears here is an exemplar of a special kind of virtue which I have often underappreciated.
Quote: (08-16-2018 05:02 PM)debeguiled Wrote:
Excellent find, Syberpunk.
1st video:
Look at those old time racists. Glad we have moved on since then. Singing "It's a Small World" for God's sake.
What a sweet French girl. Who knew?
Collar up. Yeah, 80's confirmed.
Decades away from the phrase: Only in Florida.
Disappointed they already had Big Gulp sodas back then. The Illuminati don't mess around.
Random dude knows the model on the cover of Seventeen Magazine. It is starting to seem like an 80's movie.
That put me in a good mood. Think I will pass on the second vid.
Quote: (08-16-2018 04:30 PM)Syberpunk Wrote:
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Quote: (08-16-2018 04:30 PM)Syberpunk Wrote:
Now I know they're probably after a party and having the novelty of a massive video recorder would draw a crowd.....but compare this in Florida 1987:
To the video 27 years later, in the same store recorded by the same man:
So sterile, people are more socially awkward, the dissolution of societal archetypes and shorthand has really fucked us good.
So be the light, be fearless, wherever you are in the western world. People just need a spark from another to remember whats its inside of them and what was once possible.
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Code:Thank you for sharing this video. I love the gayety of spirit that seems to fill everyone in the store. These aren't just moments of simpler times to be relished as a memory, I think, but a great reminder that life can and ought to be this way. It means a lot to me as an artist as a demonstration of the value of good humour. Everyone who appears here is an exemplar of a special kind of virtue which I have often underappreciated.
Quote: (08-16-2018 05:29 PM)General Stalin Wrote:
Quote: (08-16-2018 04:30 PM)Syberpunk Wrote:
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Loved this. First video reminds me of my childhood.
Takeaways:
People in the first video are generally much more social, more jovial, and seem happier. Contrasted by the people in the second video who are quieter, more rigid, and socially awkward; you can tell they want to be left alone more and are less accustomed to be approached and talked to casually by strangers.
In the first video that 7-11 was busy. There were 10 people they chatted with not including the friends they were there with and the staff, and it was 2:30am. There were also NO breaks in the film so that was over the course of only 9 minutes in the store. The second video they only chatted with 3 very sterile and uninteresting people (there was also a mother and her two kids in the background of one shot). There were also breaks in the filming of the second video so they definitely had to sit around the store longer just to get what minimal interaction they did, and it was 10:45pm.
The manager was cool as ice in the first video and smoking, and that first girl in the denim skirt is a solid WB also smoking. French girl was also cute as hell and fun. Everyone was cool and really captured how in yesteryear you actually could have fun just dicking around at the local convenience store.
More junk food nowadays and Big gulps are still $0.69.
Deeper thoughts: What we call "game" these days was simply being a normal socially well-adjusted human being as exemplified in the first video.
Modern American culture has got us shying away from normal, casual, healthy social situations between our peers. We've gotten so used to absorbing all of our "social interaction" through screens in a remote, disconnected manner that we have forgot what it's like to just bullshit with people and have fun doing nothing.
At first I actually thought almost everyone in the first video all knew eachother because of how friendly they were... Really puts things into perspective.
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Deeper thoughts: What we call "game" these days was simply being a normal socially well-adjusted human being as exemplified in the first video.
Quote: (08-16-2018 04:08 PM)stugatz Wrote:
I think our main problem is that we have no culture anymore - the dying remnants of what we used to celebrate don't count for much. This is one of the main reasons we have so many bored people looking for excitement through novelty like partying, sex, travel, or obsession with politics. The suburbs took white American culture and stabbed it in the heart repeatedly. The suburbs blended everyone together, then the Boomers stopped following their religions devoutly. Around the time the Millennials started to come of age, we all began wondering why this was such a boring country.
A lot of our holidays are now just pointless, and an excuse to drink make a meal that's slightly nicer than usual - sometimes it's just an excuse to drink with a theme to dress up under. Christmas and Thanksgiving have at least stayed alive, sort of, in a secular sense, but what's the point of Easter (preceded by Fat Tuesday boozing) without 40ish days of religious sacrifice, fasting, and increased church attendance? There's no fucking buildup and no reward! What's St. Patrick's Day supposed to be post-Christianity? How about Halloween/All Saint's Eve? All of these days don't really even break up the boring monotony of life if there isn't a point behind them. (I'm even angrier about this now that I've begun attending a traditionalist Catholic church - there are extra fasting days and feast days I never even learned about growing up. My own faith that my parents barely followed had plenty of vibrancy if I was just willing to read about it.)
I'd argue, actually, that ethnicities should have stuck to each other - I'm Italian, Eastern European, Irish, French, Arabic. My great-great-grandmother might have been stuck in the 1800s, but I can now see why she yelled at my Czech grandmother for marrying a "jackass Irishman". My top ethnicity is 39% of my DNA, and even that's questionable, as "Italian" varies greatly as you go across that country. What in the FUCK am I supposed to identify as? I can only name a few Italian dishes my mother made when I was growing up, and my father didn't cook. Stuff out of a Betty Crocker cookbook doesn't give you much of an appreciation for where you came from.
Quote: (08-16-2018 04:30 PM)Syberpunk Wrote:
Now I know they're probably after a party and having the novelty of a massive video recorder would draw a crowd.....but compare this in Florida 1987:
To the video 27 years later, in the same store recorded by the same man:
So sterile, people are more socially awkward, the dissolution of societal archetypes and shorthand has really fucked us good.
So be the light, be fearless, wherever you are in the western world. People just need a spark from another to remember whats its inside of them and what was once possible.
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Code:Thank you for sharing this video. I love the gayety of spirit that seems to fill everyone in the store. These aren't just moments of simpler times to be relished as a memory, I think, but a great reminder that life can and ought to be this way. It means a lot to me as an artist as a demonstration of the value of good humour. Everyone who appears here is an exemplar of a special kind of virtue which I have often underappreciated.