at 31 years old i think of the united states of america as no longer a easy place to live...bigger government involvement in our lives has made everything more complicated.....over priced....and uninteresting. we now are consumed by the world of reality....which turns out to be not so real......a certain form of escapism....if you will.....we will watch the kardashians......so we can forget about our shitty jobs...or at least feel good about ourselves that we aren't like them.....at least i do...maybe in a messed up sort of way....watching the overly rich and indulgent....spend money and act as vapid as possible....we find some sort of solace in knowing at least we have depth....and conviction.....maybe we just want their money.....perhaps its latter once we reflect upon our own lives and see that a gallon of gas is now more expensive than a gallon of milk....and some people actually wish it that way.....go figure. ill get off my usa soap box....im not gonna defy capitalism by any means....im just tired of prices going up...and its just as simple as this.... oil goes up...so does everything else.....
at 31 years old...i know what my parents meant when ten years ago they said " i dont get kids today"....more than ever do i really realize that....i feel like i woke up one day...and missed a whole generation....like pop culture just passed me by.....wow....the things people are into these days.... for example:
seriously what the eff is steampunk?...im about to tell you. according to wikipedia
Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s.[1] Specifically, steampunk involves an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century and often Victorian eraBritain—that incorporates prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy. Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology or futuristic innovations as Victorians may haveenvisioned them; in other words, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, art, etc. This technology may include such fictional machines as those found in the works ofH. G. Wells and Jules Verne or real technologies like the computer but developed earlier in an alternate history.
Other examples of steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of "the path not taken" for such technology as dirigibles, analog computers, or such digital mechanical computers asCharles Babbage and Ada Lovelace's Analytical engine.
Steampunk is often associated with cyberpunk. They have considerable influence on each other and share a similar fan base, but steampunk developed as a separate movement. Apart from time period and level of technology, the main difference is that steampunk settings tend to be lessdystopian.
Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical "steampunk" style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk.