urgh - so simplistic and completely without nuance, just merrily spinning it's own logic and coming to weird ultimate conclusions. This stuff is seductive because of it's format, but conspiracy theories also layer the logic on slowly until it's so thick you don't know where to begin to pick it apart.
I agree that it's conspiratorial but I do like the attempt to analyze this shift in a sub-section of men's fashion. So many men are "operators" operating operations nowadays. I get the attraction to the aesthetic but it just seems so out of context in every day life.
This isn't a new phenomena in that it's really no different than say, the dime store cowboy or the popular 90's thug look. It crops up whenever people are bored and or disaffected and want to feel "tougher."
That's an interesting point. I read the Preacher comics waay back in the day (also 90s, I think) and after I finished them it really did seem to play up Jessie as the tough cowboy-thug-alternative-grunge-priest thing. I enjoyed reading them in the moment but was ambivalent immediately afterwards.
I was impressed with the illustration in OP but it was paired with this emotionally unsophisticated/immature narrative that was just so jarring. There are one-man bands that are similar, where the vocals or music may be top notch, but the rest is cringeworthy.
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urgh - so simplistic and completely without nuance, just merrily spinning it's own logic and coming to weird ultimate conclusions. This stuff is seductive because of it's format, but conspiracy theories also layer the logic on slowly until it's so thick you don't know where to begin to pick it apart.
I agree that it's conspiratorial but I do like the attempt to analyze this shift in a sub-section of men's fashion. So many men are "operators" operating operations nowadays. I get the attraction to the aesthetic but it just seems so out of context in every day life.
This isn't a new phenomena in that it's really no different than say, the dime store cowboy or the popular 90's thug look. It crops up whenever people are bored and or disaffected and want to feel "tougher."
That's an interesting point. I read the Preacher comics waay back in the day (also 90s, I think) and after I finished them it really did seem to play up Jessie as the tough cowboy-thug-alternative-grunge-priest thing. I enjoyed reading them in the moment but was ambivalent immediately afterwards.
I was impressed with the illustration in OP but it was paired with this emotionally unsophisticated/immature narrative that was just so jarring. There are one-man bands that are similar, where the vocals or music may be top notch, but the rest is cringeworthy.