APATHY SYNDROME | Geeks shall inherit thy Urth & it sure ain't pretty.

 

One doesn't need to look more forward than Topdrunkee's review of Scott Pilgrim to notice that today's youth (and I'm counting 30 years old menchildren with the mind of a 13 years old) has got problems.
You can blame that on growing liberal thinking. You can blame that on the new technologies that make it easier to communicate without actual contact. You can blame it on whatever you want really, because I'm not getting into the hows and whys here. In fact, I probably wouldn't give a fuck about tomorrow's youth to begin with. The reason I'm here writing this article that will probably make me receive death threats soon, is that the new values that these people represent are slowly but significantly influencing the world of entertainment.

Since most youngsters (and again, menchildren) are incapable of relating to each other, any work of fiction is now full of unhuman, unrelatable characters, devoid of any human feeling, because the current generation is only capable of relating (and thus getting Catharsis and feeling the emotions that the fiction is trying to convey like their own) with idealized, artificial images of themselves. Artificial being the key word here.
But let's not get ahead of myself here.

Twilight, what is "cool", and true love.

With a cameo from the greatest and deepest true artist ever Hideo Kojima.
While I'm not implying that the whole conception of what is "cool" and what's not was actually influenced by the Twilight saga, I think that it is the series that best captured how the current generation feels and thinks like.

Let's take a look at the main characters, Edward and Bella.

"You wanna go to a movie or something?"
"Are you crazy? What are you, a fucking geek? You should think about having fun like normal people."
"So we do what we do usual?"
"Hell yeah we stare at each other endlessly and we speak about how shitty and depressing our lives are."

Their love is presented as a one in a lifetime, true, unbreakable love.
Do we ever learn why they love each other so much?
Well no. Do they have common interests? Uh, do they have interests?
We never see them doing anything together, no fuck that, anything at all in those movies. You can blame that on the poor script, but they were going for it. Because that's actually the new role model for today's kids.

Do you remember Fonzie?

He was a cool guy, always smiling, with a fucking leather jacket, that knew how to treat women and solve problems. Everybody in that highschool from happy days wanted to be like him.

Now let's take a look at Edward Cullen.

He completely refuses any interaction with the world. He hates everything in life, so he's completely incapable of doing anything or solving a problem. He's constantly depressed. The only thing he cares about is alienate himself from the outside world by the total abnegation towards his loved one.
(Bella is pretty much the same exact character.)

This is the new role model for kids, and the sad part is that this wasn't even born with Twilight. Twilight is merely another way to bank on a common feeling of abnegation, and self-exile from society.

 

Once upon a time, having a common passion (being cinema, literature, politics, hell even videogames, or fucking manga for god's sake) actually brought people together. Now we live in times were "love" is only a means of abnegation. If the only thing you live for is your loved one, you don't have to relate with society, you don't have to take responsibility, you don't even have to have any emotion beside "love". Of course, without any common interest or passion, "love" here means "erection and vaginal fluid secretion."

 

Having any form of interest or passion for anything, will make those people (and of course all the retarded kids posing as them) point you out as an idiot, because everything to them is shit.
I am passionate about politics, because as much as it's fucked up I love my country. Too bad I have to take insults all day long, not from people that think differently from me, but from people who don't think. I am an idiot, because politics is shit. And since I go to the cinema every week I am also a Geek, because I should think about having fun like "normal people".
(Having fun being getting drunk in a disco every day to forget that you are alive and you live in a fucking world.)

This created an interesting type of subculture. Since, how pretentious movie quotes teach us, "To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction", the continuous bashing of every single kind of entertainment created what is commonly referred to as "Geek Culture".

Geek Culture, pseudo-intellectualism, and fan service.


Travis: "FUCK YEAH I MASTURBATE AT KIDDIE CARTOON PORN I AM AWESOME AND I GET THE CHICKS."
Scott Pilgrim: "Fucking damn I DO TOO"


"Geek Culture" is a difficult term to explain. I think it's better off explained as a set of ideas and values that are accepted thought collective thinking. It's characterized by a huge dose of pretentiousness and pseudo-intellectualism.

Geek Culture is what makes people who never played a videogame that came out before 1997 say that Final Fantasy VII was a revolution in gaming. Geek Culture is what made of Christopher Nolan an acclaimed director, even thought the only thing he does is put pretentious dialogue in standard plots narrated in a non-chronological way. Geek Culture is what originated Yearbooks and makes you call japanese cartoons "anime", and japanese comics "manga", even thought they mean the same exact fucking thing, because if something comes from japan is indeed more deep than anything that comes from the western world.
It's basically comprised of people who need to feel more intelligent and cultured of they actually are, in opposition to the "cool", "twilight-like" guys, and they do that by following the Geek Culture dogmas which are based on collective thinking instead of actual facts.

Again I wouldn't care about this, if it wasn't for the fact of any type of entertainment actually decided to bank on this sub-culture.

Apology of nerdiness

I'm awesome. I have a girlfriend because I kicked her ex-boyfriends asses. Because that's how you get a girl, right? Right?
I can't really speak about this without repeating what you probably already read in topdrunkee's review. But the first example that comes to my mind while talking about Geet Culture, and the most recent, is Scott Pilgrim.
That movie has it all: Plot and characters that are totally dislocated from reality, absolutely pointless nerd references that make people without any kind of culture feel intelligent, and a possessive conception of women that obviously comes from someone who is incapable of relating with anybody on earth.
(I'll just say this and then come back to my more serious and professional self.
That movie teaches you that, if you fight hard enough, you'll eventually get what you want.
Which is all right I guess. If what you want is not a fucking girl who can fucking decide for herself if she likes you or she doesn't.
You don't get the girl you like by fighting the other boyfriends. It just doesn't work that way. I'm sorry.)

The saddest thing is probably when previously respectable directors (Quentin Tarantino, Edgar Wright, arguably Tim Burton) eventually sell their asses off to please their teenage pretentious audience.
Quentin Tarantino started off with decent movies with a good dose of symbolisms. But after the flop of Jackie Brown, and after realizing that the only thing his audience cared about was the over the top gore and the scenes stolen from foreign movies. So here comes Kill Bill.

A movie that is nothing more than stolen scenes from other movies, put together incoherently with the justification that great filmmakers steal. It's a decent piece of entertainment, but it's still regarded as a cultural, intelligent and clever movie for no real reason at all than Quentin Tarantino made it and it's supposed to be deep.
That's the same exact reason why film makers like Tim Burton are considered deep and intriguing artists. His movies are SUPPOSED to be deep (because he has fucked up hair and he says so.) nobody gets why, but
to avoid looking stupid to the other geeks, they just pretend to "get" them and write passionate reviews about them.
(It's fun to point out how every one of this opinionists always points out how is favourite movie is Citizen Kane, almost as if it was a guarantee that their opinion has to be right.)

Again, it all comes down to collective thinking. These people take their values so seriously, that when you challenge them by criticizing a movie or a videogame they adore like their new deity, even if you are pretty moderate, they will insult you personally with hate.

Conclusions
In the end, I could spend another 20 pages talking about how fucked up the entertainment industry has gotten in the recent years. I haven't even touched upon how the videogame industry got terribly pretentious and turned into a dumbed down hollywood with CG action movies sold at 70$ and regarded as ground breaking masterpieces.
Point made, the main problem here is that we live in a world were normal personal relationships aren't "officially recognized", if you pass me the term. We either celebrate the new role model of total abnegation, total disinterest and hate for everything outside getting taken care of from a woman, or we celebrate being an awkward kid who goes to pee to avoid unwanted conversation, has no idea of how to treat a woman and spends his life masturbating to lolicon porn.

In none of this comes into play any human emotion. I can't relate to any of the characters or role models that are presented in entertainment anymore, because some fucking manchildren need their fix of pretentiousness and they need to be told that it's ok to act like a 15 years old emo or nerdy or retarded kid for all your life because that's what people do.

I'm scared of what my children will learn from this. That it's ok to be a social outcast that in both cases lives only to satisfy his erection (oh sorry TRUE ETERNAL LOVE)? That liking anything except vagina is considered gay and retarded and idiotic? Is it really that bad being a normal, respectable person, that doesn't act like a fucking bitch, does what he likes to do and also fucks chicks from time to time?
Fuck it I'll probably show him machete.
I usually don't give scores to my reviews, but this isn't a review, so I'll give it a score.

[4/5]

for the fact that I will now begin receiving death threats.

 

By XED51 : September 3, 2010

Godfather: Xed51 of Rome, Italy.

He's a BaDA$$ mothafucka.

The mastermind behind Paradise Hotel 51. He took control of K7SINdicate as a part of his plan to overthrow the world economy, but he was blown up in his building, along with 600 trillion yen, by the US Army. The world economy was fucked up by that debt, but 5 years later it apparently recovered and it wasn't that bad of a crisis either. Don't ask.
Meanwhile, after his death, Xed built a little hotel near the gates for Paradise, Paradise Hotel 51. His objective might have been to gather enough souls to start a war against the army of God AKA Hideo Kojima, but unfortunately he inherited the souls of the damned mothafuckas.

 

All they ever manage to acheive is to waste their mothefuckin time talking about irrelevant bullshit. Mothafucka! Mothafucka, mothafucka the site mascot, My Killer Melody (The angry bunny.) shall lead us towards the valleys of BEDLAM! Or maybe not, because all that fucking Bunny ever does is exclaim "Mothafucka!" We believe this is due to the mascot bunny not having a decent enough grasp of English so the Bunny adopted the most commonly used words of the American dialect. Which are Mothafucka and bitch. The bunny doesn't actually know what the expletives mean but we simply follow along coz it's a friggin' bunny who keeps saying mothafucka. The bunny says that word so much that we don't even know what the word Mothafucka means anymore.

The girl in the pics is either dead, unconscious, or escaped to an unknown foreign country. Nobody gives a fuck about her identity anyway.