FelrikTheDeleted wrote:The Parkus Empire wrote:"Cheap decadence" (skinny jeans and yoga pants, for example). A startling development and altogether new. Modernity held the seductive promise that we would all get a piece of the aristocratic pie, but at all we got is the aristocratic decadence. If we all got a proper slice of the pie, everyone would read and write Latin and Greek.
Internet culture is less dangerous than pop culture. Internet culture is a rootless culture mainly confined to the internet, whereas pop culture seeps out everywhere and erodes organic culture. Not that internet culture doesn't sometimes borrow from pop culture, and vice versa, but, for example, I'm not too worried about Max Stirner becoming a part of pop culture even though he's very much a part of internet culture.
What is your obsession with decadence?
He sounds more and more like someone with masochistic tendencies inflated with a sense of hubris.
Gothic Lolita dictatorship now. All non-lolitas will be purged.

