Facebook. So many headdesk.
Aug. 21st, 2020 11:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI can't even with facebook anymore. I mean, I do because my mom and my cousin and my brother and stuff all play facebook, but damn. There are people there from my (tiny, rural, redneck) high school on there. There are people who were moms of 4-H kids I knew way back when I was in 4-H (some thirty-five or forty years ago). There are people whom I know and think fondly of... until they post some damn shit on facebook.
Headdesk.
Look at this one, from a high school classmate:
So this is nice, right? It's charming, country, not-quite-Norman-Rockwell. Romanticize the past, agrarian lifestyle, a simpler time, salt of the earth, yadda yadda yadda. She's tapping into the same shit as that Tim McGraw song "Back when", kind of a thing. There's definitely a twang to it. I KNOW what she is going for and yet still, this sort of shit is like a red flag to me.
I see her rustic, nostalgic heartwarming country meme.
It does not make me long for a simpler time when grandmas baked pies from scratch and the menfolk came in from baling the hay for a home-made lunch of fried chicken and potato salad and fresh lemonade. It does not conjure for me times of high cotton and lord I would love for it to do so... but I am not made that way.
I mentally replace the wholesome agrarian sunset image of our nostalgic, simpler past with a different one:
This is not what she's going for. I am 100% certain that this is not what she's going for. She would be horrified and hurt that I somehow got this out of her meme post. I could not explain it in any way that would make sense to her.
Taken at face value, hers is the heartwarming nostalgia and mine is the statement of a racist bastard. Context is everything. (Can't believe that I have to say this, but I DO NOT WANT TO RETURN TO THE DAYS OF LYNCHING. LYNCHING IS WRONG.)
The gentle golden light of nostalgia is not how everyone remembers the days of "way back when" is where I'm going with this. The past is a hell of a lot less romantic when you weren't the group in power.
She posts the first, with pure intentions and heartwarming nostalgia and I think the second.
Ah, Facebook. I am not sure what you are trying to accomplish, but I'm pretty sure this isn't it...
Honestly, I am pretty sure I have no business whatsoever operating a meme generator with a stale quote that sentimentally romanticizes our past as a country. Other samples of my not-work, with some photographs you might recognize:
Headdesk.
Look at this one, from a high school classmate:
So this is nice, right? It's charming, country, not-quite-Norman-Rockwell. Romanticize the past, agrarian lifestyle, a simpler time, salt of the earth, yadda yadda yadda. She's tapping into the same shit as that Tim McGraw song "Back when", kind of a thing. There's definitely a twang to it. I KNOW what she is going for and yet still, this sort of shit is like a red flag to me.
I see her rustic, nostalgic heartwarming country meme.
It does not make me long for a simpler time when grandmas baked pies from scratch and the menfolk came in from baling the hay for a home-made lunch of fried chicken and potato salad and fresh lemonade. It does not conjure for me times of high cotton and lord I would love for it to do so... but I am not made that way.
I mentally replace the wholesome agrarian sunset image of our nostalgic, simpler past with a different one:
This is not what she's going for. I am 100% certain that this is not what she's going for. She would be horrified and hurt that I somehow got this out of her meme post. I could not explain it in any way that would make sense to her.
Taken at face value, hers is the heartwarming nostalgia and mine is the statement of a racist bastard. Context is everything. (Can't believe that I have to say this, but I DO NOT WANT TO RETURN TO THE DAYS OF LYNCHING. LYNCHING IS WRONG.)
The gentle golden light of nostalgia is not how everyone remembers the days of "way back when" is where I'm going with this. The past is a hell of a lot less romantic when you weren't the group in power.
She posts the first, with pure intentions and heartwarming nostalgia and I think the second.
Ah, Facebook. I am not sure what you are trying to accomplish, but I'm pretty sure this isn't it...
Honestly, I am pretty sure I have no business whatsoever operating a meme generator with a stale quote that sentimentally romanticizes our past as a country. Other samples of my not-work, with some photographs you might recognize:
