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		astrange on Aug 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people ... We already ended modernism. It ended when GenX grew up and didn't join the hippie counterculture. If anything, the problem is new generations will be pre-modern again.

trgn on Aug 16, 2022 [–]

> when GenX grew up and didn't join the hippie counterculture.

That was a mistake. GenX should have distilled the insights of the hippies, but chucking away the cosplay and fairytales. Modernism has not ended, it is the current state of the world.

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