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Post-Mortem
Sep. 15th, 2020 05:52 pmI finished reading Cometbus #59 recently, titled Post-Mortem. It's a kind of anthropological survey of some leading "institutions" of the underground in the 1980s and 1990s... Aaron interviews people involved with these institutions, some dead, some surviving, some thriving still...
I feel like we've lost so much, and I feel I can put the finger a specific date when a lot of it started washing away (Sept. 11, 2001) but also one economic and one cultural change. The ongoing real estate bubble that was already under way when I moved to Toronto in 2000 (it had started way earlier in Vancouver) that got accelerated maniacally after the 2008 financial crisis has scorched cities of its affordable spaces... The Internet, social media and smart phones have also completely changed how we relate to each other. This pandemic is just another boulder in this wall that separates many of us.
I'm just mourning a lot of what's gone, but tell me, what spaces and groups get you fired up these days?
I feel like we've lost so much, and I feel I can put the finger a specific date when a lot of it started washing away (Sept. 11, 2001) but also one economic and one cultural change. The ongoing real estate bubble that was already under way when I moved to Toronto in 2000 (it had started way earlier in Vancouver) that got accelerated maniacally after the 2008 financial crisis has scorched cities of its affordable spaces... The Internet, social media and smart phones have also completely changed how we relate to each other. This pandemic is just another boulder in this wall that separates many of us.
I'm just mourning a lot of what's gone, but tell me, what spaces and groups get you fired up these days?