Society & Culture Dying traditions

[Dav]

It's hard to word in a title, but essentially what I wanted to discuss is practices and traditions that are dying off in the modern world where the new approach is more pragmatic but less semantic.

For example, the idea of buying and listening to an album of music as a whole entity is nowhere near as popular these days, in an era where platforms like Spotify and YouTube allow us to instantly recall a singular song in seconds.

Or that automatic cars are increasingly popular over manuals, and are objectively easier to drive and operate, but lack the feeling and involvement of a manual.

Essentially these sort of things are being replaced by more utilitarian and pragmatic practices but just lack the character or emotion of the original practice.

 

[GreyCrow]

Remembering phone numbers

Remembering directions

 

[edgie]

There's nothing pragmatic about leaving thinking to machines.

Paying in cash.

 

[edgie]

Wanking using imagination

 

[RolandF1]

Buying a newspaper to see what's going on in the world.

 

[iluvparis]

Remembering phone numbers

Remembering directions

My dad stills ask people for their Melways reference

 

[M Malice]

 

[the_interloper]

Having a wank over the bras and things xmas special catalogue.

 

[Gough]

I was only yesterday thinking how the LP as an art form has been killed by streaming. A Day in the Life is a great song on it's own but in the whole context of Sgt Pepper it transcends that, same with an album like London Calling, or the Wall, the songs collectively tell a story. Green Day were probably the last lot to do it with American Idiot.

 

[GreyCrow]

Concept albums

 

[Richard Pryor]

As a recent uni student, attending lectures in person. Have no idea how people manage to actually learn stuff when their lectures are essentially glorified youtube videos.

Fan communities being centered around magazines.

 

[Gough]

Concept albums

I thought about using that phrase but a lot of LP's tell a story in music without it necessarily being a concept album. KK's first album is essentially an autobiography but nobody calls that a concept album, ditto For The Working Class Man by Jimmy Barnes, or Rumours by Fleetwodd Mac.

 

[perthblue]

Smartphones have ruined the ability to have an argument about something neither of you actually know much about. Always someone pulling up Google to fact check.

As a recent uni student, attending lectures in person. Have no idea how people manage to actually learn stuff when their lectures are essentially glorified youtube videos.

Fan communities being centered around magazines.

I attended all lectures (and will again)
Learning is better in person, hate studying online.

 

[Gough]

I attended all lectures (and will again)
Learning is better in person, hate studying online.

Girly swot.

 

[Perth gal]

Writing a letter to someone.

Texting instead of calling someone.

Using self serve instead of using a checkout.

 

[perthblue]

Girly swot.

I shall be reporting you to the headmaster

 

[perthblue]

Writing a letter to someone.

Texting instead of calling someone.

Using self serve instead of using a checkout.

I miss snail mail.
We used to write and receive letters from overseas relatives when i was a kid. It was so great receiving a letter in the post, and spending time constructing a letter and choosing photos to post with it.

Now its just 'hey whats new/**** all, wbu?/yeh same'

Also there is never anything good in the mail now.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I was only yesterday thinking how the LP as an art form has been killed by streaming. A Day in the Life is a great song on it's own but in the whole context of Sgt Pepper it transcends that, same with an album like London Calling, or the Wall, the songs collectively tell a story. Green Day were probably the last lot to do it with American Idiot.

Concept albums

Nah.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Also, I have no idea how semantic is being used in this context...

 

[mr bagcroft]

The death of album listening is crippling to music. We won’t know what we have lost till...oh,it’s too late. Such a shame.

 

[iluvparis]

Girly swot.

One of the great lines from the Young Ones

 

[Engimal v3]

I don't think album listening is dying. Either 2016 or 2015 (I forget which) was the highest selling year for vinyl since 1993.

 

[Deliverance]

Have you seen teenagers listen to music? They can't even hear one whole song let alone an album. Skip, skip, skip, oh wait I love this song. 30 second's later, skip.

 

[Damon_3388]

Green Day were probably the last lot to do it with American Idiot.

Lolwut?!

 

[Jobe Watson]

Or that automatic cars are increasingly popular over manuals, and are objectively easier to drive and operate, but lack the feeling and involvement of a manual.

I've never understood this thinking.

Unless you're driving a sports car along the Pacific Coast Highway, why does driving need to be an 'experience'? Most people just use their car to drive to work or down to the shops. Always love hearing these manual purists who think that driving an automatic isn't 'real driving', as if getting from A to B needs to be some sort of rewarding challenge.