whats up with the alt rights obsession with the 1980s (in burgerland especially) ex: post ironic appropriation of ironic vaporwave with 80s themes, reagan, even fucking TRUMP is literally a guy from the 80s
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Evan Myers
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Asher Butler
"Make America Great Again"
Isaiah Stewart
It's probably when their dads were young
Evan Roberts
Because the 80's were ultra capitalist.
Jonathan Lewis
but the 80s weren't even that great, lol
Ian Jones
The 80s had interesting music and a lot of good funk and fusion. Holla Forums probably doesn't like either, but nonetheless.
Parker Price
Yeah but the eighties were very good at fakeness and veneer. It was a point when tech was developed enough to create a simulacrum of the American Dream (tm) [Baudrillard] but not developed enough to create a neverending superego machine of narcissistic self one session like tech does today. Also The USSR was still around, capitalism has something to fight against, so innovation and consumerism was a propaganda technique. Idk if I'm expressing myself very well, I dunno
Basically this
Bentley Baker
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Joshua Howard
It's not just them, it's a general trend
Want to know my tongue in cheek answer?
We're living through the 1970s again. But this time, we know how it ends - it ends with the 1980s. So, how do we escape our economic malaise, or distrust of politicians, our broad ideological consensus? Well, we cargo-cult it. A reference here, a bad colour combo there, some palm trees on the left-corner. It should work!
I mean, look at the real cargo cults - it's actually very clever in some ways, except they're conscious and we're spectacularly unconscious. They saw men talk into radios, then planes arrived on dirt strips, planes had the good shit, so they wanted planes - then the men with radios went away. What do you do? Well, what is the logical thing to do? Build some dirt strips, make a headset and talk into it. March around on patrol. You're doing everything right, but the planes aren't coming - still, it was a damn good guess. For most people who couldn't even tell you who was president/prime minister fifteen years ago, it's a damn good guess.
There are two secondary points: The 1980s nostalgia was for the 1950s, at least in the USA. (maybe also a little in Britain, but we'd probably see it more victorian) The idealized 1950s image is of course incredibly appealing to white nationalists anyway, and to all sorts of people who want to believe in an American dream that sort of existed at the time (Keynesian demand management go!) and mostly was bullshit because America couldn't actually commit to nice things like a national health service.
I forget the second point, so I'll just ramble: People think the economy was good in the 1980s rather than a fucking hellscape where we decided what parts of the population were condemned to decades of strangulation and what parts of the population it was politically advantageous to allow to recover. Then we've got the problem that people struggle to create new things (or if you prefer, it's far more obvious what inspired them due to the internet.) so it's painfully obvious when people go back and mine the 1980s. Finally, there's the development of technology - while the 1980s were a hellscape that already certified benevolent social democratic technology was going bye-bye, a lot of materials - popular books, etc, detailed technological advancements that would never arrive just like in the 1970s. People could still expect reliable, cheap space transportation (in the form of the shuttle, a design compromised to death and just as expensive as the Apollo rockets.), supersonic jets (lower key), holograms, photorealistic computer graphics, and so on. These promises were of course lies.
Hunter Reyes
Yet it is pop culture that is regurgitated, even art that did critique Americana tends to be removed from its context. The 1980's were full of escapism because everything was shit.