On the occasion of the controversy of the famous traper Snik for the lyrics of the song Chinchilla with all those who accuse him, I decided to go a little further. The traper went crazy with what was written on social media, as they report that this particular song promotes sexist stereotypes, with references to sexual acts, vulgar descriptions of the female sex and drugs.
Welcome to 2022.
I will mention a simple sociological fact, which many did not give the necessary importance when it should. Not that anything would change of course.
In the 1950s in Greece there were cafes. A place where adults, teenagers and children met. The adults for company and ouzo, the teenagers for an orange juice and the children for no submarine.
So far so good. In this specific space there was an age demarcation, with clear roles. The grandfather with the stories from earlier years (war, daily wage), the dad with his, and the teenagers and the kids listened, or they didn't. Even if they weren't listening though, something caught their ear. These included the values of this generation, see living wage, livelihood, dignity.
Not that there was no diversion, but we are talking about the majority.
Then came the 1960s, when the hippie movement began in America, angry teenagers seeking freedom of speech, freedom of sex, and of course (if you remember) many drugs. The movement of the movement in Greece started with music. But the simple sociological fact we mentioned above was the modernity called cafeteria, bar, pub or disco.
New nightclubs have split generations. Elsewhere the young and elsewhere the elderly. Values changed because the young man (and all of us) needed one identifiable identity. An identity that would make him stand out from the crowd in the cafeteria.
He used dad's car, the long ones hair, rock, disco, easy money, etc, etc, or even extreme behaviors such as substance use. Imagine teenagers who have not formed character, forming it in this new era, and in a completely new environment.
Then came the television that served information from America directly to our living room, while before it was circulating with the boat that took three months to reach.
With the immediacy of information, and advertising, values changed. Let's go again, the easy money of the Americans, or otherwise the model of the successful one who sits and takes them, without a living wage.
Then came the internet and the lightning fast transmission of information.
It's the new system, Stupid. Its the progress.
Does Snik express his opinion or the new generation? A new revolution created by YouTube and Pornhub. Are you looking for values in the protagonists of Pornhub? But children learn sex from there. Children are bored, they do not make sense and adults find it difficult to make sense of them. Besides, there are not more of them.
We suddenly do not like the patterns we have created and we try to react. Unfortunately, the decade of the cafe is gone forever. For better or worse, things are moving forward.
No I'm not a puritan, I know where I live and I try to enjoy it by trying to avoid the pitfalls. But, and speaking completely philosophically, what remains unchanged from the time of Socrates are values.
The others, not those of the Stock Exchange. That is why during the economic crisis in Greece, many people argued that it was a crisis of values.
I agree, values remain the constant by which societies are judged. Unless the judge is in someone's pocket.