Impress me. But really.

As the 20th anniversary of this blog approaches (yes, I'll post in a couple of months), a ridiculous thing happens to me about the fediverse. I say ridiculous because it would be pathetic, but nowadays you can no longer say that a young woman is pathetic. So I say it's just ridiculous.

So, this comes and leads her with the fact that she is a Satanist, and therefore she has the whole society against it, because this idea would be "revolutionary". The little girl (she will be twenty years old) obviously, like all the decerebrated monkeys of the moment, does not remember anything that has not been on her Instagram timeline more than a week ago, so she thinks she is original.

Imagine the scene. I was shooting in the 80s with Venom t-shirts. We listened to shit like this:

And this comes by claiming that TODAY society would be shocked by its "spiritual Satanism" because, according to him, it shakes "everything we believe in" from the very ground up. A revolution. So for curiosity I go to this great site.

I don't link it to you because I doubt that Digos created it. Because it has EVERYTHING of the sites that Digos creates, including a link "Satanism and family". Satanism and family. That is, I repeat: "Satanism and family". What is missing is "Satanism according to Pippo Baudo" and "Bruno Vespa makes you the model of the third circle of Hell".

Everything else is a continuous yawn. Not because it's trivial TODAY. It's because it was banal 40 years ago. This is the point.

We can say that not even the Satanist metalheads of the 80s were new. True. They were new to the ignorant province, certainly, but some newspapers still spoke of Charles Manson, and the entire wealthy bourgeoisie of the 1970s had participated in some satanic ritual.

And he is fixated on paganism and is very old, and he doesn't guess anything with what were the institutional religions of the Romans, or the Greeks. It has no shit, for example, to do with the enotheism that characterized the Greek religion.

It's stuff that was already old when I was young.

Not that I want to find loopholes, but at least those were the years in which a certain heavy metal was born, and nobody around me had ever seen anything like it. I could believe, or delude myself, that I was uncomfortable or revolutionary at least in that context.

But today, honestly, after the advent of the internet, no one can say they don't know. So, what is revolutionary about this “Satanism” of 2022? Boh. Perhaps the fact that at least we did not have that minimum of revolutionary dignity that prevented us from writing "Satanism in the family" stuff.

But if I think about it, it's not like after the 80s (which may have been as bad as you want, but at least he was a bad creative) there was a lot. I mean, it makes me laugh when I hear that "grunge was a revolution". And why, please?

Why did Cobain kill himself? Oh my God! Had we never seen a rock singer kill himself? Was he depressed? Oh my God, cover your daughters' eyes! Was he a nihilist? Oddiosanto, who has ever seen a nihilist musician before today? Did he take drugs? Strange: Weren't they the drug-immune category? Did he have a slightly slutty girlfriend? Yawn.

Only between the 80s and 70s could I name about twenty unhappy nihilistic depressed suicidal musicians, who did everything Cobain did, better, and especially BEFORE him.

What should I be amazed at? What's the news? Should I be in awe of these things?

I won't tell you the boredom when Greta arrived (I hope you still remember her, because seeing a copy of her appear in a year, sold as a novelty, would be annoying!) ecology.

Damn. A strike of high school students for ecology. When did high schoolers ever go on strike for the environment? Huh? Had there ever been a high school strike before, perhaps? I mean, if we take out all of my high school years, it's about five to ten years ago. And ten years later.

But no: just have a short memory and poof, a high school strike for ecology becomes a new thing. So new and unthinkable as to be revolutionary. Never seen before.

And then the anticontroboycottari. I get one who explains to me (his goodness) that if you install an extension on your browser the CDNs won't log you anymore.

Aside from the catastrophic incompetence of believing that a CDN only deals with static content (has anyone informed Facebook of this? It seems – I say it seems, huh – that they also use it for user-generated content), we really are still stuck at " Boikotta Israel? ". Do you really think that if so many people install this browser extension then Google will go broke?

But did you drink your brains, or what?

Where would the revolution be? Do you think the Shin Beth headquarters are worried about this new invention? Is it different now that you use colors? And likewise, do you really think a "browser extension" is relevant in the fight with hyperscalers?

You are boring. No, really: you are boring. It has been since the end of the 90s that all your "new" is boring. Because it's old.

Let me be clear, I'm not the only one to say it. There are academic studies about it:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w26752

Nothing has been invented for decades. And the only way to pass off things that are old and bubbling as new is to destroy the memory.

During a discussion with the satanist girl, a friend of hers told me "ok boomer". Do you really think this is new? When I was a child your grandmother used to do it, only she said "matusa". Damn, what a new thing I've heard: a derogatory to those who remember that everything you're doing is useless and won't work, because we did it before you were born and it didn't work.

- 10 NOI SIAMO IL NUOVO CHE FA IL FUTURO
- 20 VERAMENTE ABBIAMO GIA' PROVATO 20 ANNI FA IN QUESTO MODO
- 30 MA NOI SIAMO MIGLIORI DI VOI E RIUSCIREMO BOOMER DI MERDA
- 50 DIVENTERETE TUTTI NOTAI.
- 60 GOTO 10

This thing, honestly, is boring. Because in the meantime outside time passes, and nothing changes. And nothing new comes. And everything new we have already seen.

And honestly, you young creatives with ideas never seen before and you will make the revolution, and why not, because you are new and young and you are the future, you look a little like this to me:

Stuff that was old when I was young, and has gotten young now that I'm old.

And if you really want to impress me with how creative you are, if you really want me to feel like a dinosaur and you feel like an asteroid, then please

Because otherwise you just look like Mick Jagger's prostate.

Or if you prefer, you are the cover of Raoul Casadei as he struggles to shit. Boring.

And if someone says "hey, boomer", my answer is this:

“Impress me, please. with something I didn't already do 40 years ago ”.