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This is why everyone is a DJ now | Meditations for the anxious mind | YouTubeToText
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This is why everyone's a DJ now. The DJ
industrial complex has reached
saturation point. This public health
crisis has become widespread in the
western world, affecting young people on
a binge diet of skins, original pirate
material, and trying not to khole in
smoking areas. This global outbreak
coincided with the cultural collapse in
meaning. When society disintegrates and
we no longer find contentment in work,
the flickering lights of the office can
feel like epilepsy. So the strobe became
our sole focus. Chasing away beds were
too awake to sleep in. Searching for
connection or a new dealer on Telegram.
We become Bristol presenting Berlin
sexuals signaling taste and muttering
scarcity. Adulthood pushed into the not
yet. All futures foreclosed until
further notice. Realizing our dreams
have been made hollow, we're stuck in
post aspiration where the promise of
progress becomes a practical joke and
ambition becomes performance. Climbing a
ladder that leads us to nowhere.
Disenchanted by the promises of a
rewarding career and our hopeful parents
who still think we're superstars. The DJ
is a generational symptom of millennial
disillusionment. And now we're beat
matching jungle on the edge of the end
with our hands in the air to catch the
sky when it falls. Merritocracy taught
my generation that ambition would
liberate us. But with doors too heavy to
open and dreams too outdated to realize,
hedonism held us in the absence of
contentment. So we scratched impulses
and gave up finding freedom to snort
coke off the keys to the kingdom.
Because sedation is first cousins with
forgetting, forgetting we only live for
the weekend because we hate our job. And
that our hope for the future is a hope
from another century. And a toothachake
in the land of milk and honey still rots
the inside of your mouth. You're meant
to take blue punishers in halves.
Every generation has its plague. My
ancestors had colonialism. Our parents
had consumerism. And now we have DJs.
USB attached to their keychain. They
think their USP is their ADHD. But when
we turn down their KRK's, their true
diagnosis is stage 4 individualism. A
terminal condition where everyone's on
stage and there's no one left in the
audience. A collective comedown from
being told we were special. Performing
uniqueness in similar ways. Our dreams
became speckled, ears still ringing when
the raves shut down. And we all forgot
to stop dancing. Hung over from a world
that told us we could be anything, we
decided to be DJs. We don't create our
own music. We curate playlists,
recirculating signs that will make
people think we're cool. And we do this
through the labels we wear, the books we
read, the people we hang out with, and
the opinions we parrot. The DJ figure,
ruled by the same logic, is just another
celebration of self. That was loud. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Far from their communal roots, the DJ is
sign value in an image society. They're
the product, and the music is just
background noise. With this constant
battle for visibility, we're all glued
to our social media screens, stuck in
performance mode, showcasing our
greatest hits. The work of making our
lives look aesthetic is a demand we've
all internalized. And when we have a
desire to be seen without the skill to
learn an instrument, we all become DJs.
My generation grew up in the moment
after the encore. In a world that can't
imagine its own future, we resort to
lost pasts. And we can see this in the
resurgence of Y2K fashion, endless
reboots of old movies, and Oasis getting
back together. When life becomes
uncertain, we escape into simpler times.
And in a society that only values
authenticity if someone's making money
off it, we look to the '90s with no
cameras recording the drop and bask in
the afterlow of utopia almost. What does
it say about the present moment when a
time we weren't even alive to witness
feels better than whatever is around
now? What do we do when there's no
history left to sample? How do we create
new futures that can become someone
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