BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 📢. After decades of being pulled into the all-consuming orbit of the Postmodern Anti-Story, the zeitgeist started to shift. We're beginning to find ourselves moving from cynical to aspirational, from irony to sincerity, and from despair to meaning. The Pixies

Vibe shift.

RT @PaulAnleitner: This is almost impossible for young people to imagine, but our biggest cultural heroes used to unironically wave massive….

This is almost impossible for young people to imagine, but our biggest cultural heroes used to unironically wave massive American flags around and everyone would cheer.

Hulk Hogan was a larger than life icon of American culture for Gen X’ers & older Millennials. No one embodied the zeitgeist of American culture better than him in the 80s & 90s. His “heel turn” in ‘96 perfectly captured the cynical vibe shift emerging in the ‘90s.

Those reasons are real and painful, but they don’t fully explain the relatively sudden trend towards leaving Christianity that we’ve seen in recent decades. I offer another likely explanation as to what changed here:.

Why didn’t your grandparents “deconstruct” & leave the faith?. The common reasons I hear for young people deconstructing are:.1. Church hurt.2. Moral failure of church leaders.3. Bad theology.4. Unanswered Questions . But didn’t these same problems exist for our grandparents? 🧵

Returning back to nostalgic movies has a positive psychological role to play in our lives. I talk about my colleague @clayroutledge research on nostalgia with @HuttonOutkick and @TheChadWithrow on @Outkick . And yeah, sign me up for a Days of Thunder & F1 crossover sequel 🏎️ 🔥

This is largely accurate, but it’s also missing another phase in between 2010-2020:. Movie that Cynically Subverts & Deconstructs the Thing

Great to be back on with @HuttonOutkick & @TheChadWithrow to talk about the deeper meaning behind trends in culture!. It’s the ONLY national sports talk show in the country I’ve seen doing this. (My segment is at the 46 minute marker 👍).

Here are some of the top movies of 1996-1999. Notice the subtle progression each year of more darker, cynical, and postmodern films. 1999 was the cultural turning point.

Talk to people under 25 and ask them who has more cultural influence: Saturday Night Live or someone like Kai Cenat. You might hear back, "What's Saturday Night Live?"

The old centers of cultural influence are going the way of the dinosaur.

Obviously, there are numerous things wrong with this attempt at outrage farming, but there's one thing he got correct:. There is a mismatch between the male evolutionary instinct for polygyny and the modern moral norm of monogamous marriage. But here's why his strategy is

RT @jamesrwoodtheo: vibe shift

*yearn.

Religious expression in a secular age:. Hans Zimmer’s Interstellar theme played in a Catholic cathedral is haunting. We all year for a taste of transcendence.

Now imagine if this question was:. “What do you believe should be of ultimate concern in life?” . Answering this question is what “religion” is about, and until relatively recently in human history, asking someone how important it is would have been nonsensical.

Fascinating research from my colleagues at the Human Flourishing Lab about some of the POSITIVE benefits of technology.

Both of these movies came out in 1986, and they feel spiritually related in a way that Fight Club and The Matrix both coming out in 1999 felt related. I think Highlander could get rebooted today and work as a kind of John Wick-styled, post-ironic nod to the original.