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Are we a city of pleasure seekers with no articulated philosophy?
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by mtippett | August 1, 2008 at 11:09 am
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This is the question asked on Condo Hype today.
Were Eli content to let his 10-inch-when-erect “gift from God” merely lie in the sunshine at Wreck Beach, Judy Williams could relax. –Pieta Woolley, “Wreck Beach under siege,” Georgia Straight, July 31 2008
I’ll tell you right now, no article in the history of the Georgia Straight will ever open with a more entertaining line. It’s sensational. On its strength alone, I was compelled to the read the entirety of Pieta Woolley’s 2,800-word feature on the politics of Wreck Beach. Even better, the article, which explores the future of Vancouver’s nude beach in the face of shifting values, talks about the emergence of a new city culture. I
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at 11:38 on August 1st, 2008
One thing in that article did jump out at me: young Vancouverites are very image-conscious, yet indeed they tend not to talk to strangers. I often wondered if they wanted to meet people or just be talked about. Having said that, I had moved to Vancouver from Brooklyn, where the personal space of others was not highly valued! I met a lot of really neat people in Brooklyn. In Van, too, but just not as many.
at 11:43 on August 1st, 2008
Thought-provoking blog post. Although I wonder if unarticulated, value-less pleasure-seeking is anything new. I feel like there has been an insidious existential void among young people since Gen X-ers brought it to the cultural fore in the 80s and 90s. The generations since then (Y, and Z, or whatever they're called) seem to have become better at embracing the ridiculous vapidness of postmodernity without worrying so much about what it all means. I think irony has become a common coping mechanism for dealing with the barrage of bullshit marketing and media we're faced with everyday. They said irony died with 9/11, but somehow it's managed to stick around. I wonder how long before it breaks.
at 13:17 on August 1st, 2008
I've been meaning to get through Ad Buster's article on this subject. I think there's something to it. With the collapse of ideology: first communism and now, increasingly capitalism there is very little uniting Western thinking except panic.