#homogenization

[stone-cold-groove]

Now! Homogenized for better flavor! Ad for Durkee Foods’ margarine - 1955.

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

How and why capitalism homogenizes everything, Part One: radio.

[bleedingheartandnootkarose]

Boyfriend and I watched The Song of The Sea, and the first thing I said to him after it finished was:

“America took our heritage away from us.”

The American Dream is for white Anglo-Saxon middle managers who go to a good Protestant church every Sunday, and while I sure am English and German on my Dad’s side, I am Irish and Welsh and French on my mom’s, and every time I watch a movie like this, I can’t stop mourning what was lost when my predecessors self-homogenized or were forced to homogenize in order to fit into the neat, sanitized machine that is the American life. Our languages, our dances, our music, our holidays, our dress…everything. The British-American empire did away with anything that wasn’t neatly packaged and whitewashed for the consumption of other neatly packaged and whitewashed folk. I hear the language of my ancestors and I wish to god I knew what it meant, how it feels on my tongue, and I know I am not alone.

I know there are hundreds of cultures that came to America to have the best bits cherry-picked, just for the rest of it, the meat of it discarded. And instead of looking back at what we lost and saying, “no one else should lose their history,” we just keep the shame train going. How many videos have I seen of white men and women yelling at Spanish speakers and Mandarin speakers and Arabic speakers online? Someday we will look back and we will truly hate ourselves for destroying all that makes our country beautiful and colorful and diverse. We have already lost so much to this fucking empire. Why must we force others to abandon what makes them beautiful?

[genizer-homogenizer]

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[cherryblossomshadow]

It's like bananas!

Literally! Bananas are clones and one virus could destroy the world's bananas in one go. Why are we not leaning into the strength of diversity?

it's honestly nuts to me that critical infrastructure literally everywhere went down because everyone is dependent on windows and instead of questioning whether we should be letting one single company handle literally the vast majority of global technological infrastructure, we're pointing and laughing at a subcontracted company for pushing a bad update and potentially ruining themselves

like yall linux has been here for decades. it's stable. the bank I used to work for is having zero outage on their critical systems because they had the foresight to migrate away from windows-only infrastructure years ago whereas some other institutions literally cannot process debit card transactions right now.

global windows dependence is a massive risk and this WILL happen again if something isn't done to address it. one company should not be able to brick our global infrastructure.

[mecworksinnovations]

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[le-magazine-culturel]

Reasons to Grow Organic Plants in Your Home Garden and Get the Benefits

[soyoujustfoundoutyoureadopted]

loss of content loss of space loss of culture

[idexindia]

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[vgaautomation]

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[jerseymuppet]

getting up on my soapbox for a moment. i find it laughable that nearly every time someone says they don’t like rap they cite hamilton and k-pop as the only rap they can tolerate. because everything else is just so violent and full of blatant consumerism. first off. so is k-pop. secondly. idk how to tell you the founding fathers were some of the most violent people around (coming from a black american descentant of slaves who is most likely related to thomas jefferson. shouldn’t have to explain the relevance here). thirdly. hamilton and k-pop both reference and interpolate rap. so idk what to tell you babes. you do like rap. you just don’t like black people. say it with your full chest next time.

[knightofleo]

[businessmanucaturer]

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[youvegottohelpyourself]

Location, Location, Location...

On a certain corner of Twitter you will often see Tweets like these, where the merits of a city are discussed, most especially in relation to other cities. I always found these kinds of tweets off the mark, there are hardly any differences between even London and Shanghai, much less two American cities (this guy is also wrong about cafes). The whole thing reeks of narcissism and status signaling, as if people are hyping a place up to use the city itself as a fashion statement. After all, it hardly takes any effort to move to a place. Much easier to move to Bushwick and “drift through cafés at night” LARPing as a “bohemian” than to actually do the work of cultivating artistic knowledge or talent.

With the invention of the car and airplane, people have been free to move across the country at the drop of a hat. Much of the population of any given place consists of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation transplants from other areas—not to mention, immigrants from other countries. These transplants have over time, diluted and made extinct the varied regional cultures across the US. There is really no longer such a thing as a “Virginian” as there may have been in the 1800s—all local identities and cultures have long been subsumed into that of “American.” The printing press, radio, television, and internet have lead to even more extreme levels of homogenization. What you will find, whether in New York, Chicago, or San Francisco, is that people consume the same media and are subject to the same social pressures as those elsewhere across the country. As I’m sure you’re aware, most people are not really individuals, but status maximizing robots that mirror the tastes and views of high status people and institutions. As those tastes and views are the same no matter where you are, the general population consists of carbon copies of various archetypes with small variations between them and a very small handful of true individuals.

Global brands like Starbucks and McDonald’s have displaced older and more historical retail stores, leading to the same stores and brands in every city. Architecture too, consists of the same steel skyscraper abominations, with maybe, a smattering of a few decaying historical buildings. Even the layout of the city itself is shared between cities, with most being some variation of a grid pattern. Perhaps the only differentiating factor left is the geography of the location itself, such as rivers or mountains. Though really, what is the difference, from our perspective as a city dweller between the Thames and the Potomac? Any city with a river is interchangeable with any other that shares a river.

Although it pains me to say, because I loathe to reduce everything to just numbers, where you live really just boils down to a few key statistics such as average temperature/humidity, population size, cost of living, demographic makeup, crime rate, and available jobs. Some cities may have a quirk, like New York being big or San Jose being full of tech workers, but these are just quirks and do little to meaningfully differentiate the city beyond that one trait. The quality of life and people you meet are really going to be the same as any other place with similar statistics. Any real regional differences in areas have long since evaporated and only exist in the overactive imaginations of Twitter posters.

There is another aspect to the Tweet above that really bothered me, the “be a bohemian” comment. In the current year, the artist is little more than an identity to adopt for status signaling. Real artistic talent, and indeed even knowledge of the arts, has been, along with everything else, on a slow decline since the late 19th century. One does not “become a bohemian” by adopting the signs of a bohemian—drinking coffee in some trendy café in a trendy neighborhood does not make you a bohemian any more than putting on a space suit makes you an astronaut. It is actually impossible to be a bohemian, because the Bohemians, like the beatnik, hippie, hipster, and other related artistic movements are completely dead. You are just LARPing, adopting superficial aspects of some long gone group to craft a fake identity. If you want to channel the spirit of the bohemian, you must be something new entirely.

Fascination with cities or the hottest Brooklyn neighborhoods is a sure sign that you are not, in fact, channeling the spirit of the Bohemian and are instead just a narcissistic poser. This preoccupation with location and physical space is the old mindset of the old world. What distinguishes our age from that of other ages? What is new and exciting about our world? It is undoubtedly the invention of the internet, and so any real artistic movement is likely going to be location agnostic and internet focused. Yet, the internet too, is becoming old news and dying. Given the noted state of decline in just about everything, it’s entirely possible that in the end the internet spawns nothing of note. Still, I’m not holding my breath for “sock_dem” and others caught in this most ancient mindset.

[pollen]

Kaveh Akbar, from "Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Inpatient)”

[sthilarions]

A lot of the time when people say a character is a golden retriever I’m like “that breed does not mean what you think it means” but you know what? Charles is a golden retriever

He’s affectionate and friendly and energetic and smiles all of the time always, you kick him and he’ll still smile and run right back to you after

But also Goldens are typically ranked as the fourth most intelligent dog breed, after only Border Collies, Poodles, and German Shepherds, but everyone always reaches for them as a metaphor for “no thoughts head empty just fluff and love”

And that’s Charles too. He announces Edwin as the brains and keeps his smile on and bounces around and is so casually sweet everyone figures he must be running on vibes alone and actually when they’re back in the office he’s the one doing the more visibly nerdy magic, the stuff you’d normally assign to your autistic-coded Q-archetype basement-recluse wizard, he’s creating complex enchanted items and writing runes and mentally managing hundreds to thousands of items in his bag. And he’s just as much a detective as Edwin is.

He just also grins and jumps and projects friendliness like his life depends on it, and people assume.