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The core emotional drama of the metamodern adventure (everything everywhere all at once, umbrella academy, Loki, rick and morty) is Heidegger’s dread. Dread is the recognition that ultimately, systems of thought (ideologies) cannot produce any ultimate meaning.
I think the rise of popularity of metamodern adventure is basically due to an increasing number of people reaching the same point of insight that the existentialists in the mid-1900s. What was a concern of heady philosophers has become mainstream.
@eshear no surprise that many would hit Heidegger's dread when what's going on in the cultural zeitgeist is so chocked full of ideological warfare, concerns over fake news, produces a natural hidden anxiety of "uh oh, everything's bullshit" https://t.co/YEgiQETjO0
@eshear this is just our era. Maybe the essence of the 80s with Gordon Gekko "Greed is Good", the 90s collapse of Cold War world, 00s was War on Terror, and so on ... the 2020s are nationalism, nativism, distrust, globalization backlash, cultural fragmentation, etc
@eshear One looks outward for meaning, then sees the futility. For the inside framed the outside. One looks inward for meaning, then sees the futility. For the outside framed the inside. Yet there was a conversation of in and out. I like conversations. What created this conversation?