Listening to the Arctic Monkeys, looking at this chart, and it occurs to me: of course culture has been stuck in a hauntological retrograde for the last 15-20 years. Boomers invented every subculture because they had economic means to do so.

*have the economic means to continue to reinforce subcultures.

Millennials put up with/
reinforce/copy Boomer inventions because we want to be as rich as they are (despite knowing we never will be).

Saying this out loud it seems breathtakingly obvious.

I was thinking about this tweet in my dream last night and it occurred to me - economic production defines everything, to the point that what cultural artifacts are we left with from the Soviet Union? What pop culture from the USSR is left? (nothing)

(If someone replies to this with some sort of "Soviet Electronic Music (Doomer)" playlist I'm muting you.

Relevant tweet to add to this thread: https://twitter.com/as_a_worker/status/1289955644716417024?s=21