does it feel like everything is starting to look the same
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2024
- The rise of non-places. They are all around us. The airport terminal. The grocery store. The hotel hallway.
All of our cities are starting to look the same. We eat the same food, consume the same culture, live in the same buildings. Is this globalization a loss or a gain?
Small Circles Forward by Daniel Karlsson Lönnö 2023.
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00:00 Intro
01:35 Skylines
02:36 Fast food and Americanization
04:08 The city street and modernism
05:25 Non-places
08:53 Consumption, the mall
10:20 Consumption, the internet
11:16 Invasive species
13:28 Are we losing something
15:58 Non-conformity
Sources:
Augé, Marc. Non-places (1992)
Kunstler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere (1993)
Kolbert, Elizabeth. The Sixth Extinction (2014)
Carmona, Matthew. Public Places, Urban Spaces 3rd Edition (2021)
Nations for fast food chains from Wikipedia. There are most likely some errors in these lists.
The map uses current day geographical borders and divisions. The borders on the map does not necessary represent the views of me.
Music from Epidemic Sounds:
"At the foot of the hill" by Erik Fernholm downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"Candlelight Theme" by Trevor Kowalski downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"Give up Pangea" by Joseph Beg downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"Night Swap" by Bill Ferngren downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"Nocturnal Soul" by Sonum downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"The Haunted Concert Hall" by Luella Gren downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"The Last Canto" by Christian Andersen downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"Twinkle" by Megan Wofford downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
Image rights:
Lian Chang from New York City. Chandigarh Secretariat.jpg downloaded under Creative Commons licence from Wikimedia Commons.
Photo: Andreas Praefcke. Weissenhof Corbusier 03.jpg downloaded under Creative Commons licence from Wikimedia Commons.
Michael E Reali Jr (Wiki Takes Philadelphia 2 participant). WTP2 Mike Reali 01d.jpg downloaded under Creative Commons licence from Wikimedia Commons.
All other videos and images are either in the Public Domain or from Storyblocks; www.videoblocks.com/.
Vectorized map: World with Countries - Single Color by FreeVectorMaps.com
Maybe it's because things have become much more utilitarian. It has a use and that is all.
Great perspective on the loss of identity globalization has brought. We have a small reataurant in my city and we are among the few left which still serve traditional foods. New restaurants focus on American or Mexican fast food.
Man discovered liminal spaces
Very thoughtful and well presented.
I'm split on this. Because on one side, it's great that things are so similar, and travel is easy and convenient. But at the same time, since everywhere is more similar, it makes travel less interesting.
You need more views! Wtf algorithm, this is prime content.
Thank you!
Just get your closest 2000 friends to like and comment and it should catch the drift
Profound, true, and timely. Thank you. Well done.
Fashion is starting to look the same, since labels are just becoming the current trend. Then you have architecture that isn't even unique, which is becoming more and more depressing. It's just like the entire world is falling into a well and doesn't know how to get out. I fear for the future, that humanity will become more like drones in a dystopian novel.
Music is also formulaic, as are movies. Food is dominated by commercially viable crops. Clothes limited to brand labels. Some things do need to be universal, but that doesn't men everything must be universal. Capitalism, as it turns out, has its downsides.
I really enjoyed that format, with an interesting message. Maybe do more such "essay" vlogs.
Thank you so much, I definitely want to do more videos of this style 😊
Just realized most of your videos have only 1000 views. What a gem of a channel.
Just subscribed, AWESOME content...sharing to boost the algorithm😊💖😊.
Restaurant owner: Hmm. Oh, I know! I'll decorate my walls with a bunch of random, nostalgic old junk and advertisements. That'll turn my restaurant into a place!
Actually what you speak of does make "a place" memorable😉.
I am reminded of Douglas Adams talking about time travel where traveling to the past pollutes it to the point that "the past is now truly like a foreign country. They do thing exactly the same there."
So beautiful said and narrated. I know the feeling. With food the same. I forage just to add diversity back in and pleae the senses. Happy to eat a wild flower. There a many free gifts.
Thoughtful Video. Take away: Don't hesitate to use your 'place' in other ways it was intented to be.
Great video, you gave me the chills a couple times. I don't know how to call this, or what this is, but since a young age, whenever I see large crowds of people, I feel this dread and anxiety. The place can be a tall building looking at a busy freeway, a very crowded restaurant, but the worse of them all is a situation like the minute 16:00. Seeing so many people, puts me in a state of trance, almost hypnotizing even.
I believe we all feel somewhat special to ourselves, and more important than others. Life from our point of view, inside our head, is the only thing we know. We do not know anything outside our mind, and so we live life... we like the things we do, and we don't the things we don't. In the end, it is our life, I (we) matter, right? When looking from above a large crowd, I feel my existence does not matter, for if I vanish into dust, only a handful of people would probably care, and the world will continue to move its cogs to keep the machine running. Everybody you see in a crowd has at least a story, dreams, fears, regrets, goals... If an ant dies, it probably does not matter to you, there are too many, isn't it the same case with us as humans as well? The feelings of being insignificant, is dreadful to me, but also helps me realize that this is actual life, and even if we are just one of the billions of people alive, our life experiences are unique to us, that perhaps make our life special after all.
This world is changing into a big backrooms environment
This was sad and beautiful in the same time. It is not easy to go back to 'local' as the only 'local' that is left is old and dusty by now, the new 'local' wasn't invented, so to speak.
We call most of that liminal, if there are no people to be seen.
Monoculture is actually very comforting. Yes, globalisation or uniformity is “boring”. But it is not necessarily a bad thing. I like travelling to different countries and see familiar Brands and feel comforted. It is not a popular opinion. But local cultures or “native” cultures are not necessarily better or superior. By the same token, globalisation is not necessarily bad or inferior.
Distinct local cultures may not be as optimized as global monoculture, but they have their unique strengths in narrow areas and alternate ways to live. Global monoculture, just like any culture, is prone to buildup of systemic flaws, and without alternate perspectives, it becomes impossible to recognize and fix them. A monoculture is ultimately less resilient compared to a diverse ecosystem with rich variety of solutions to problems. While a monoculture might feel comfortable when things work out, when problems arise, you are stuck with it and have nowhere else to go, since there's only one place.
I see your point, but I can’t really say I’m experiencing such a ‘place detachment‘.
If you spend more time in nature you can see similar patterns. Forests in one climate zone look all similar. So do beaches by the same sea. There are some remarkable unique landscapes, but most is quite similar
You start to see differences only after you learn to mindfully observe each surrounding. But once you learn it the nature, you can quickly see how different are all the places even of these are subtle differences
This sensitivity is crucial a skill to admire modernist architecture (or any art to be honest). Modernists rejected rich ornaments and replaced them with thoughtful composition of geometrical shape, with is useful, but also beautiful if you try to look at it with no prejudice. Nowadays we are all used to these buildings so much that these shapes look obvious, neutral. But their shapes are actually artistic compositions, well crafted, with backing ideas and sometimes - a message.
But maybe it’s just European POV, maybe it is so boring in other places
Hey man, new subscriber. here. your content is very well researched and illustrated beautifully. I am going to binge watch some of your content. I know that i will learn a lot of nuance stuff
Welcome! Thank you so much, I hope you'll enjoy it :)
yes, i too got lost in the backroom once
What a fascinating video! So much of what surrounds us feels like a "non-place", especially with technology combined with corporate monopolies. I wonder if the current time period will be deemed a second Gilded Age.
It definitely is already called that.
13:42 a place I actually instantly recognized, despite having been there (Naschmarkt in Vienna) only twice
not to take away from the video though
globalization seems to be undone a little bit here and there
I wonder if that could have an effect on cultural output
True.
I hear people who played the game New World had this exact same feeling.
Love the video and the idea of symmetry between globalization and nature that you made, very interesting point. You definitely should have many more subs. Looking forward to new videos ..oh, and you gained one more sub. Cheers! ...maybe of topic a bit, but I think traveling for the sake of 'seeing new places' is overrated
Definitely liminal spaces.
Wrong McDonald’s, lot of people will know where that one is
Sverige, Sverige, Sverige
We are living in the Matrix.
"
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face though they come from the ends of the earth!
"
Gl0b0 H0m0
I'm sure you know about the mouse utopia experiment. That is exactly what is happening to modern society. Dark times ahead. Spoil alert: Every mouse died.
He 'likes' only complementary comments. That's pretty sameish. & Small -&-narrow-minded.