Sunday Funday: Tumblr Degenerates.
What is it with Tumblr and all the broken-degenerates being attracted there? Is it because of the way the “+1, Community Comments Only” structure feeds into their desires for a preternatural family?
Regadless: check out this excellent video which a fellow from /v/ put together for your amusement.
For your Enrichment: The French Revolution; the Beginning of the End. Just the standard narrative, but extremely well done. A great starting point – this is a Triple-A history lecture.
I think that for the Tumblr wackos, the site has the effect of a positive-feedback echo chamber: it is so easy to find blogs that share and validate your opinion, people who may have been perfectly reasonable about a topic get caught up in the madness that the Internet tends to bring out of people and become quite irrational and passionate. And then there are the people who are positively strange who find like-minded people on Tumblr and they begin to mutually feed their addiction and console each other that, no, they are perfectly fine, it’s just all those mean meanies out in that depressing and boring “real world” who want us to be just as “sane” and gray and drab as them; they are perfectly fine, and Whatever help you if you do not agree 100% with that sentiment!
If you want to see the changes in the standard narrative, I suggest the first episode of James Burke’s “The Day The Universe Changed” (the entire series, really, but the first minutes of the first episode will be enough of a culture shock). It’s available on YouTube. This unashamed pro-west, pro-reason, pro-traditional institutions program was produced by the BBC in the mid 80s! I assume they’ve tracked the original film and burned it by now…
Cheers,
JCS
WTF you talkin’ about bro, that shit is all on Netflix. I also watched “Connections,” another of James Burke’s masterpieces.