YES to "all people are bad!!!" "No one is good but God" etc. makes me think of how non Christians become so disappointed when their favorite celebs reveal they're not a "good person" and it's like, you guys don't even care about Jesus, the only perfect and good person ever and it's weird...
Okay, it had not occurred to me that the wave of (this present instantiation of) wholesomeness ...is in large part a reaction to "irony-culture," but seems plausible. (Ouch.)
I wonder if it is also a response to a [more internal] conflict about the meaningfulness of "life lived on a small scale."
Like, growing up, we were told, "The best things in life are free," (a sunset, your friend's face while laughing, the voice of a bird at dawn) and... it's very compelling. But I see millenials (and younger folks) finding it hard to say "no" to the temptation to go for the "impressive" job, (that overworks you) the social media post "makes a splash," (at a cost) and the showy life that wants to "make a difference!" (right now, immediately, for thousands of people. or it doesn't count!) And that life (or image of a life) also commands and compels.
Maybe that leaves 'em longing for "simpler times" - but possibly feeling that having "simple joys" filling up their daily life is like... a distant vision, un-bridgeably far away. (so instead, you revel in the "aww, how sweet" meme that takes 5 seconds of your time, and then get back to the desperate treadmill of trying to "crank out productivity"!)
"you feel the engaging helplessness and humiliations of the sleazoids as well as their cruelty."
THIS IS WICKHAM (and Willoughby, too).
YES to "all people are bad!!!" "No one is good but God" etc. makes me think of how non Christians become so disappointed when their favorite celebs reveal they're not a "good person" and it's like, you guys don't even care about Jesus, the only perfect and good person ever and it's weird...
Okay, it had not occurred to me that the wave of (this present instantiation of) wholesomeness ...is in large part a reaction to "irony-culture," but seems plausible. (Ouch.)
I wonder if it is also a response to a [more internal] conflict about the meaningfulness of "life lived on a small scale."
Like, growing up, we were told, "The best things in life are free," (a sunset, your friend's face while laughing, the voice of a bird at dawn) and... it's very compelling. But I see millenials (and younger folks) finding it hard to say "no" to the temptation to go for the "impressive" job, (that overworks you) the social media post "makes a splash," (at a cost) and the showy life that wants to "make a difference!" (right now, immediately, for thousands of people. or it doesn't count!) And that life (or image of a life) also commands and compels.
Maybe that leaves 'em longing for "simpler times" - but possibly feeling that having "simple joys" filling up their daily life is like... a distant vision, un-bridgeably far away. (so instead, you revel in the "aww, how sweet" meme that takes 5 seconds of your time, and then get back to the desperate treadmill of trying to "crank out productivity"!)