Are millennials/zoomers infantilized? Book Review by The Economist

When i said the 90s i was narrowly focusing on DC (DC weathered the 90s really well like even event slop like superman dying or knightfall is high art compared to recent events and some alt stuff) still the 80s for marvel was unquestionably good esp compared to now where everyone is a celebrity fed. Thats also not to say good comics arent being made currently i mean we got Monster by BWS, the strange death of alex raymond by Sim, the Glen Gengees by Kevin Huizenga ect. Are all good original stories. The indie scene will never die. People will always sneak good stuff in corpos too. My point was more the over all storytelling in DC has declines. Post crisis DC lasted a few decades as a collective unified story meanwhile in just like 13 years DC has recently had 4 total relaunch reboots.

I don't think @transgirltradwife still lurks here, but she is very adamant about this- not specifically in marvel movies but in general.

Some people are complete defeatists who act like there's never been a technological innovation in their lives that make the standard of living better as population grows and also acts like there's an incomprehensible population boom that will bring on Malthusian population problems when almost the entire developed world has had less than replacement rates of reproduction for decades. Real ones think about colonizing planets if needed. Fake ones think about their r-slurred lifestyle being maintained like the old days and hoping change doesn't come.

You forget that the r-slurred west coastcels who wrote that slop seriously believe in peak oil tier arguments.

Modern writers are incapable of imagining a scenario which isn't about their pet issue. If something is a problem they care about (overpopulation) then it has to be a problem everywhere in all forms of fiction. This is also why all fantasy, scifi and magical settings have to have disabled people in wheelchairs and gender dysphoria, and all demographics throughout all of history and imagination have to be the demographics of 2024 San Francisco

What do you think of Joker (2019)? Besides it being a cheap Taxi Driver clone, it had a lot of potential to be an interesting villain perspective, but he seems kind of just hapless and r-slurred, just doing things because he's a natural frick up instead of digging into the societal breakdown stuff as motivation.

Andor was probably the only recent Disney scifi show that explored some interesting themes, mostly just how they show how the imperial system is run at a huge multi-planet scale. But scifi is a bit different than superhero fantasy where you can look at bigger "coming soon" societal themes. Probably why that XMen comic "Days of Future Past" was the most interesting comic ever IMO

In a bizarre creative decision, The Eternals reveals that Thanos was objectively doing the right thing and saved all life on Earth and many other planets besides.

Planets are eggs for god babies and when the population gets big enough, they hatch, killing everyone on the planet. Then again, I'm the only person on Earth who saw The Eternals, so I could make up anything about the plot and you'd have to take my word for it.

My thing is they don't even address anything he has to say. No one really gives a reason why he's wrong or right beyond "wow its sad people died" there are so many ways to could use the script to prove him wrong. You could go the lazy route and just had someone do a take down monologue or have it be revealed Thanos is scape goating over population as a cope for being a shitty ruler.

AI, rewrite the Avengers movies where Thanos wants to eliminate all women.

You had a chance to not be completely worthless, but it looks like you threw it away. At least you're consistent.

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Most of their audience wouldn't get it, then.

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It all went wrong in 1789.

That's an interesting thought. I suppose the relative decrease in time was greater. With the telegraph communication that would have taken days or weeks was reduced to minutes, while the internet reduced communication of minutes or hours down to seconds.

Although the internet, especially when combined with the smartphone, has allowed for much greater variety and flexability of communication so I'm not really sure which one at this point lead to the greater relative advancement.

The internet's impact has been just as massive imo but less visible in lines because its good is offset by its bad.

IMO the internet really does raise productivity a lot, but in the same vein it enables a lot of wasted time and distractions. Being able to respond in 5 minutes with an email hardly matters if the employees spend an hour playing video games before sending that email. The same tradeoffs apply to education with increased access but also cheating and not paying attention. The top 20% of people probably benefit a ton from the internet and the bottom 80% are slightly worsened by it.

The internet just isn't that profitable. Much of the corporate internet is and was designed to scam investors who hope holding a monopoly position occupied will result into cash raining from the sky eventually rather than to make a profit.

Krugman was right.

The internet has a massive impact on modern economies, you just seem to be looking past it, perhaps because you're so used to its presence.

Yes, the telegraph was also hugely impactful (well at least once they started laying undersea cables), but its bandwidth was very low and it could only be used for text messages. And not even really person-to-person text messages either - if I wanted to send you a telegraph, I'd have to go to the telegraph station myself, order the telegraph sent, it would be received at the other end, transcribed onto a piece of paper, and then delivered to you. That's categorically slower than even simple stuff like SMS these days which allows truly instantaneous communication and a back-and-forth discussion.

With the internet you can, for example, instantly send updated blueprints from your engineering center to the manufacturing center off in another time zone. Before the internet (but after the telegraph) you'd have to mail it. Not to mention the huge increase in access to information - if I'm working on a project and need info about something, I don't need to go down to a library or whatever to find that info, I can just search for it online and get it instantly.

I'll admit though that it's difficult to really separate the impact of computers with the impact of the internet, since they're so incredibly intertwined.

People always mistake sigmoid curves for exponential ones.

Yeah I was there multiple times and everything but I legitimately signed multiple binding legal documents while using the restroom.

Trades are all six figure salaries in America once you're past apprenticeship and are one of the few remaining fields where you can start a business without significant capital. If you're uneducated or lazy and end up on roofs in your 50s it's awful though yeah.

"Toxic culture" - they drink and do drugs and swear a lot.