#IRLActorJamesDean i.e. #TheoryCodedMasculinity / #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity / #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverPetroMotorcycle versus #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle / #MetaphorGenerationMillennials + #LiteralVehicleScooterElectric #TheoryDeclinism #MetaphorVersusHardSoft #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych #TheoryHauntology
Context: "James Dean, On Motorcycle, (Sitting on Front), Los Angeles, 1955" https://www.artsy.net/artwork/phil-stern-james-dean-on-motorcycle-sitting-on-front-los-angeles Versus https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/photo/businessman-riding-a-scooter-in-the-city-royalty-free-image/1086958922
#OtheringUnhealthyObesity #MetaphorVersusHardSoft
Addendum: I note that the meme has 'Tommy Mustache Bitcoin' emblazoned on it - presumably, as its creator and as part of a #MetaphorTransmissionContagionViral ad effort.
#TVTheMandalorianS2E1 i.e. https://www.starwars.com/databank/cobb-vanth-s-speeder And https://www.ign.com/articles/mandalorian-anakin-podracer-speeder-bike-easter-egg #OrgUSLucasfilmStarWars #1969_EasyRider #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverPetroMotorcycle #LiteralVehicleScooterElectric #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #TheoryDeclinism #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #MetaphorVersusHardSoft #MetaphorVersusSideBySideTriptych #TheoryHauntology
"The last great generation before all you sissies were born." #MetaphorGenerationGenX #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #MetaphorVersusHardSoft #BrandMolsonCoorsMillerLite ? #TheoryDeclinism
#1969_EasyRider #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverPetroMotorcycle #LiteralVehicleScooterElectric #TheoryDeclinism #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #MetaphorVersusHardSoft #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
Supplementary: "Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/14793-every-generation-imagines-itself-to-be-more-intelligent-than-the #IRLAuthorGeorgeOrwell
#AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSA #MetaphorTransformationEvolution #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle / #CharacterisationWeaknessFragility / #BehaviourEmotionalDysregulationHistrionics versus #PleaNostalgia #IdentityClassBlueCollar #PowerControlExploitationChildLabour #NarrativeWarWWII #MetaphorVersusWeaknessStrength #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #MetaphorVersusHardSoft #TheoryDeclinism #Meme1800s1900s2000s
#IRLActorClintEastwood #IRLActorTellySavalas #TheoryCodedMasculinityOver #CharacterisationWeaknessCrybabies #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #PleaPronouns #PhenomnGenderSpectrum #CharacterisationVegan #TheoryDeclinism #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #MetaphorVersusHardSoft / #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverRugged #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
Context: #2019_UNClimateActionSummit i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_UN_Climate_Action_Summit #IRLActivistGretaThunberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAJsdgTPJpU
Supplementary: #1970_KellysHeroes screen-shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csv1wXOr5tY&t=208s #PhenomnCulturalFormGenreFilmWar
#TheoryModelBinaryDualityManichean #IRLActorJohnWayne / #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverRugged versus #SymbolHairstyleTopknot #TheoryDeclinism #MetaphorVersusHardSoft #MetaphorVersusUsThem #TheoryModelBinary #PleaAuthenticity #PleaNostalgia #MetaphorTransformationRetrogression #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
#IRLActorClintEastwood #IRLActorTellySavalas #TheoryCodedMasculinityOver #CharacterisationWeaknessCrybabies #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #PleaPronouns #PhenomnGenderSpectrum #CharacterisationVegan #TheoryDeclinism #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #MetaphorVersusHardSoft / #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverRugged #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
Context: #2019_UNClimateActionSummit i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_UN_Climate_Action_Summit #IRLActivistGretaThunberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAJsdgTPJpU
Supplementary: #1970_KellysHeroes screen-shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csv1wXOr5tY&t=208s #PhenomnCulturalFormGenreFilmWar
#1987_FullMetalJacket #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake #CharacterisationInjuryFeelings #TheoryCodedMasculinityOver #CharacterisationVegan #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle #MetaphorVersusHardSoft / #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverRugged i.e. #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity
Context: #PhenomnTrendTidePodChallenge appears to be a coded, pejorative reference to #MetaphorGenerationMillennials i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumption_of_Tide_Pods And #WebsiteTheConversationHarryDyer: "Due in no small part to the press coverage, trends like these are quickly blown out of proportion. As with the creepy clown sightings of 2016/17, or the Kylie Jenner lip challenge of 2015, the mainstream media seems to add to the hysteria surrounding these fads, which only serves to extend their relatively short shelf life.
Some such coverage mourns the decline of younger generations - as though millennials and Gen Z-ers have a monopoly on stupidity. But as the brilliant Pessimists Archive podcast has shown, hand-wringing over the state of younger generations is nothing new, and there's no evidence to suggest that today's young people are inherently more reckless than previous generations.
What is different about today's young people, though, is that they have the technology to record their stupidity for posterity, as well as a desire to push boundaries and attract viewers to the content they post online. This is the 'attention economy' in action, whereby attention is an increasingly scarce resource, which users are desperate to gain as ever greater amounts of content are put online.
At their core, these trends are born and driven by what people do when others might be looking. The attention economy can help to explain the powerful effects of being watched on the way humans understand, conform to, and deviate from what's 'normal'. And this, in turn, gives us a way to make sense of the Tide Pod challenge and other internet phenomena..." https://theconversation.com/tide-pod-challenge-blaming-stupid-millennials-is-the-easy-way-out-90606 #MetaphorHandWringing and the #TheoryAttentionEconomy with #IRLAuthorJamesWilliams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxyRf3hfRXg https://pessimistsarchive.org/about
Supplementary: #TheorySynopticon i.e. MATHIESEN, THOMAS. (1997) 'The Viewer Society: Michel Foucault's `Panopticon' Revisited', Theoretical Criminology, 1(2), pp. 215-234. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480697001002003. And #TheoryOmniopticon: "There are three main types of social surveillance, based on whether the space that is being watched is somewhere local, global or a cyberspace. The first type of surveillance is considered a Panopticon emerged with modernism, where a small group of people watches over a larger group of people. The second one is the Synopticon where the many watch over the few. Emerged especially with the growth of the mass media, the Synopticon is the product of a more globalized world when compared to the concept of Panopticon. The third type of surveillance is the Omnipticon, where both Panopticon and Synopticon are applied simultaneously. While the globalization has stripped a minority of the privilege of watching and conferred it on the whole of society, surveillance has gradually begun to evolve from a mean of psychological pressure into an alluring psychological desire. As the world becomes more globalized, the grip of social control becomes firmer and stronger than thought even though the physical local pressures on the individual seem to have been diminished. While it might seem liberating at first sight, the globalization also leads to an anti-emancipatory world." Sarıgül, Fatma. (2018). 'The Changing Types of Social Surveillance Through Globalization.' PEOPLE: International Journal of Social Sciences 4: 200-211. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326510599_THE_CHANGING_TYPES_OF_SOCIAL_SURVEILLANCE_THROUGH_GLOBALIZATION
#MetaphorTransformationEvolution #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle / #CharacterisationWeaknessFragility / #BehaviourEmotionalDysregulationHistrionics versus #PleaNostalgia #IdentityClassBlueCollar #PowerControlExploitationChildLabour #NarrativeWarWWII #MetaphorVersusWeaknessStrength #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #MetaphorVersusHardSoft #TheoryDeclinism #Meme1800s1900s2000s
#AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSA #MetaphorTransformationEvolution #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle / #CharacterisationWeaknessFragility / #BehaviourEmotionalDysregulationHistrionics versus #PleaNostalgia #IdentityClassBlueCollar #PowerControlExploitationChildLabour #NarrativeWarWWII #MetaphorVersusWeaknessStrength #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #MetaphorVersusHardSoft #TheoryDeclinism #Meme1800s1900s2000s
#IRLActorClintEastwood #IRLActorTellySavalas #TheoryCodedMasculinityOver #CharacterisationWeaknessCrybabies #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #PleaPronouns #PhenomnGenderSpectrum #CharacterisationVegan #TheoryDeclinism #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #MetaphorVersusHardSoft / #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverRugged #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
Context: #2019_UNClimateActionSummit i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_UN_Climate_Action_Summit #IRLActivistGretaThunberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAJsdgTPJpU
Supplementary: #1970_KellysHeroes screen-shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csv1wXOr5tY&t=208s #PhenomnCulturalFormGenreFilmWar
#AphorismStrongWeakMenGoodBadTimes #TheoryDeclinism #IRLPhotographerJoeRosenthal's iconic #1945_RaisingTheFlagOnIwoJima #NarrativeWarWWII image of #OrgUSFedAFMMarines raising the #SymbolEmblemFlagUS atop Mount Suribachi during the battle of #ToponymAsiaEastJapanOgasawaraIwoJima #CharacterisationWeakness #MemeJessicaStarrAKALukeCrywalker #OrgUSDeepIsolationSamBrinton #IRLEntertainerBenitoSkinnerAKABennyDrama #2022_InvasionOfUkraine #MetaphorVersusHardSoft #VlogTheBennyShow #IRLDogmatistBennyJohnson
Context: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-benny-show/id1584730781
#TheoryDeclinism #TheoryModelBinaryDualityManichean #TVSavedByTheBell 1990's version with #IRLActorTiffaniThiessen versus reboot version with #IRLActorJosieTotah #PleaNostalgia #PleaAuthenticity #TheoryModelBinary #MetaphorTransformationRetrogression #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
Context: the tweet places both images within a #TheoryHegemonicMasculinity frame, which in doing so, positions Thiessen as #TheoryCodedFemininityOver archetype contrasted with Totah who, because of her #IdentityLGBTQIATrans status represents #OtheringOutGroupTransgressiveDeviant #TheoryRepresentation or #TheorySociologyRecuperation ?
Supplementary: when considered in context with tweets, which follow a similar trope there is a clear gender divide: males who don't fit masculine stereotypes are positioned in relation to a (good/bad) #MetaphorVersusHardSoft dichotomy whereas females who don't fit feminine stereotypes are positioned in relation to a (good/bad) #MetaphorVersusPurityAdulteration (good/bad) dichotomy. #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations
#MetaphorVersusHardSoft i.e. "la droite" [the right] are cast as strong where as #TauntWoke are cast as childish / ineffectual / #PhenomnAgencyHumanPowerlessness - and because of the oppositional framing of the metaphor - they are also presumably, also not #CharacterisationRightWing i.e. they are presumably its opposite - #TauntLeftThe - that is, #MetaphorVersusRightWingLeftWing
Supplementary: Analysing this meme using Conceptual Metaphor Theory i.e. http://folksonomy.co/?keyword=53608 would position the absurdity (and incongruous nature) of a child's toy car being on the motorway as a 'source domain' and an assumed relationship between supposed "la droite" + "le wokisme" groups as the target domain. In mapping the latter (target) onto the former (source) the resulting concept is that 'woke' are an absurd incongruity. I can only assume that such characterisations provide comfort for those characterised in terms of #TheorySociologySocialInertia
The meme revisions the infamous real-life, car-chase of #IRLSportspersonOJSimpson on 17 June 1994: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-simpson-chase-bronco-helicopter-20190617-story.html #TheoryLinguisticsConceptualMetaphorCMT
#NarrativeWarWWII #IdentityBritish (from Imperial units cited)
#NarrativeWarWWII #ToponymEuropeBelgiumVlaamsGewestBrussels #TheoryDeclinism #MetaphorVersusHardSoft "vrijheid" i.e. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/dutch-english/vrijheid #CatchcryFreedomOfSpeechFreeSpeech #CatchcryFreedomLiberty #CharacterisationStrengthCourageGritValor #LiteralEndurance
"American paratroopers proudly display a Nazi flag captured after a successful landing made behind German lines on the Normandy coast of France, June 9, 1944." #OrgUSFedAFMArmy i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101st_Airborne_Division#/media/File:101st_Airborne_Division_-_WW2_01.jpg #ToponymEuropeFranceNormandy #1944_ #NarrativeWarWWII
"The last great generation before all you sissies were born." #MetaphorGenerationGenX #TheoryDeclinism #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #MetaphorVersusHardSoft
Supplementary: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenX/comments/uv3lah/comment/i9j42k0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
#IRLActorPierceBrosnan and #IRLActorMichelleYeoh in #1997_TomorrowNeverDies Versus #IRLActorDanielCraig and #IRLActorLashanaLynch / #FictionalCharacter007MNomi in #2021_NoTimeToDie https://www.instagram.com/p/CTkcrx7o7pt/ #TheoryCodedMasculinityAlphaMale ? #TheoryRepresentation #PoliticallyCorrectPC #PhenomnMaskWearing #LiteralVehicleScooterElectric #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #TheoryDeclinism #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #MetaphorVersusHardSoft #MetaphorVersusSideBySideTriptych #2027_
#IRLSportspersonSimoneBiles #IRLSportspersonKerriStrug #MetaphorVersusHardSoft
Supplementary: "Athletes are not cogs in a wheel, and the desire to win a competition should not trump someone's well-being. Elite gymnasts already put themselves through grueling physical and mental feats; they wouldn't be at the top of their sport if they didn't. But there are limits, and too often in our yearning for a gold medal--or even for a triumphant Olympic story--we push athletes too far." https://www.upworthy.com/kerri-strug-video-olympics-ankle-vault
#ReasoningFallacyReductioAdAbsurdum
Context: #MemeTheyBrainwashedYou: #MetaphorVersusUsThem #TauntBrainwashed #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #IdentityLGBTQIAPrideFlag #BeliefIslamism #PhenomnMaskWearing #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #OrgUSPlannedParenthood #OrgRUSovietUnionOfSovietSocialistRepublicsUSSR #CauseFeminism #NMUSCNN #NMUSFOXFNC #BeliefMysticismCartomancyTarotCards #TauntBigTech #TechServiceGoogle #PlatformSMYouTube #BrandMetaFacebook #PlatformSMTwitterTWTR #PlatformSMTumblr #BeliefDaoism i.e. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/daoism/ #BeliefDeitySatanLuciferDevilBeelzebubAntichristDajjal ? #PoliticsNationalismConservative #SymbolEmblemFlagUS #BeliefChristianity #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump
#CharacterisationWeaknessCrybabies #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #TheoryDeclinism #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #MetaphorVersusHardSoft / #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverRugged #IRLActorClintEastwood #IRLActorTellySavalas #TheoryCodedMasculinityOver #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
Supplementary: #1970_KellysHeroes screen-shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csv1wXOr5tY&t=208s #PhenomnCulturalFormGenreFilmWar
#IRLActorClintEastwood #IRLActorTellySavalas #TheoryCodedMasculinityOver #CharacterisationWeaknessCrybabies #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #PleaPronouns #PhenomnGenderSpectrum #CharacterisationVegan #TheoryDeclinism #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #MetaphorVersusHardSoft / #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverRugged #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
Context: #2019_UNClimateActionSummit i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_UN_Climate_Action_Summit #IRLActivistGretaThunberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAJsdgTPJpU
Supplementary: #1970_KellysHeroes screen-shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csv1wXOr5tY&t=208s #PhenomnCulturalFormGenreFilmWar
#AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSA #MetaphorTransformationEvolution #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle / #CharacterisationWeaknessFragility / #BehaviourEmotionalDysregulationHistrionics versus #PleaNostalgia #IdentityClassBlueCollar #PowerControlExploitationChildLabour #NarrativeWarWWII #MetaphorVersusWeaknessStrength #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #MetaphorVersusHardSoft #Meme1800s1900s2000s
Supplementary: Robert Ralston. (2022). 'Make Us Great Again: The Causes of Declinism in Major Powers.' Security Studies 31(4): 667-702. https://doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2022.2133626 #TheoryDeclinism
#PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake #PoliticsFascismNaziPartyAdolfHitler #CharacterisationWeaknessSnowflake #MetaphorVersusHardSoft
Addendum: the comment suggests that they're referring to #ToponymEuropeFranceNormandyOmahaBeach D-Day casualties i.e. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/media/press-releases/d-day-fact-sheet-0
#IRLActorClintEastwood #IRLActorTellySavalas #TheoryCodedMasculinityOver #CharacterisationWeaknessCrybabies #MetaphorGenerationMillennials #PleaPronouns #PhenomnGenderSpectrum #CharacterisationVegan #TheoryDeclinism #PoliticsProgressivismBrittle #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #MetaphorVersusHardSoft / #TheoryCodedMasculinityOverRugged #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
Context: #2019_UNClimateActionSummit i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_UN_Climate_Action_Summit #IRLActivistGretaThunberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAJsdgTPJpU
Supplementary: #1970_KellysHeroes screen-shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csv1wXOr5tY&t=208s #PhenomnCulturalFormGenreFilmWar
#IRLActivistGretaThunberg and #CauseRenewableGreenEnergy versus #PowerControlExploitationChildLabour #PhenomnMiningArtisanal #PhenomnMiningCobalt i.e. an #ReasoningFallacyStrawman (or perhaps #ReasoningFallacyAdHominemPersonalAttack ?) #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych
Context: "The use of child labor in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where nearly 60% of the world's cobalt is currently produced, is certainly a major issue that deserves the attention of consumers, corporations, and governments. However, some media outlets and social media users have distorted the issue into a rallying cry against the use of electric cars and clean energy." https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/child-miners-electric-cars-work/
#TheoryDeclinism #MetaphorVersusHardSoft #MetaphorVersusUsThem #TheoryModelBinaryDualityManichean #PleaAuthenticity #PleaNostalgia #SymbolHairstyleTopknot #TheoryModelBinary #MetaphorTransformationRetrogression #IRLActorCaryGrant e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/bmvl3c/cary_grant_looking_dapper_1950s/ #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych #TheoryHauntology
Context: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/something-went-terribly-wrong
Supplementary: "Declinism is the tendency to see the past in an overly positive light and to view the present or future in an overly negative light, leading us to believe that things are worse than they used to be. Declinism is often a feeling harbored about the overall state of a country, society, or institution, with the view that it is in decline or getting worse." https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/declinism
Addendum: https://bsky.app/profile/navin5u.bsky.social/post/3kl33heyuo22m
