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    Don't forget Radiohead releasing Planet Telex in 1995, then OK Computer in 1997.

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    • nickwithac@lemmy.worldN [email protected]

      You NEED to watch the video: https://youtu.be/4JkIs37a2JE

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      I remember my mind being blown away by a TV segment that explained how the practical effect was achieved.

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        You NEED to watch the video: https://youtu.be/4JkIs37a2JE

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        I really love this cover of virtual insanity.

        https://youtu.be/ZTDcdRTziMM

        I know it's almost unrelated to the discussion because you're talking about the music video, but how often is Jamiroquai brought up?

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          Yeah it's not about the Internet and virtual reality or fax machines etc, it was about overpopulation and ecological collapse among other things.

          The song was inspired by a trip to an underground city in Sendai, Japan if you read Wikipedia. In the late 90s Japan was a gadget obsessed place with neon signs and screens packed into places like Sendai. Japan had industrialised rapidly over the 20th century and gave the impression of a thriving technology and manufacturing industry.

          It was seen as a futuristic place by people from the rest of the world when they visited. Of course in reality Japan was in the first of its "lost decades" of stagnation that's run from the early 90s to now.

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          Underground city in Sendai? Did they get radicalised by visiting a shopping center connected to the subway?

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          • ook@discuss.tchncs.deO [email protected]

            Banger music video

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            Great tune too tbh

            ty OP for making my afternoon playlist a lot funkier

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                I remember the that summer. Always wanted a Jamiroqoi hat

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                  I really love this cover of virtual insanity.

                  https://youtu.be/ZTDcdRTziMM

                  I know it's almost unrelated to the discussion because you're talking about the music video, but how often is Jamiroquai brought up?

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                  I was very skeptical. You did not disappoint.

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                  • ook@discuss.tchncs.deO [email protected]

                    Banger music video

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                    Plus JK is a cool dude.

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                      Underground city in Sendai? Did they get radicalised by visiting a shopping center connected to the subway?

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                      Cheeba cheeba is a helluva drug

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                        Was born in 1996, please can someone tell me who's this? I'd like to listen to them. Thank you.

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                        While you're checking out the video for virtual insanity, also check out the one for Canned Heat, another great tune and another great video from Jamiroquai. I was only a kid then, but I'd turn on MTV in the morning before school to watch videos back in like 97-99, and these videos popped up every so often, and they had a lasting impact.

                        Check out also the Wikipedia article on Sterno, sometimes referred to as Canned Heat, because people would drink the shit to get fucked up and would ultimately die, and the coroner would rule it a death by canned heat.

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                          political radicalization. in the past 100 years Japan has seen:

                          • hypermilitarization
                          • hyperfascism
                          • hyperbombs
                          • hyperdepression
                          • hypercolonialism
                          • hyperindustrialization
                          • hypercapitalism
                          • hyperrecession

                          and a lot of people want to know if there will ever be an end to everything being so damn extra all the time, or if Japan is simply expected to burn itself out working. and as is always the case when the people start askrng these questions, there's a rightwing reaction promising to restore Japan to the glory of an imagined past

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                          Is hyperfascism like regular fascism with neon lights or what?

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                            You NEED to watch the video: https://youtu.be/4JkIs37a2JE

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                            Isn't this just Pasttime Paradise by Stevie Wonder?

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                              Is hyperfascism like regular fascism with neon lights or what?

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                              overt fascism. it contrasts itself from fascisms that hide themselves by claiming to be something they're not.

                              hyper fascist regimes:

                              • italian fascism
                              • national socialism
                              • sharia
                              • christofascism
                              • israeli zionism
                              • japanese imperial militarism
                              • post soviet russia

                              covert fascist regimes:

                              • neoliberalism
                              • feudalism
                              • republicanism (the roman concept, not the us political party, they actually fit into the above)
                              • bolshevism/stalinism/marxist-leninism
                              • anarcho-capitalism
                              • technocracy
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                                overt fascism. it contrasts itself from fascisms that hide themselves by claiming to be something they're not.

                                hyper fascist regimes:

                                • italian fascism
                                • national socialism
                                • sharia
                                • christofascism
                                • israeli zionism
                                • japanese imperial militarism
                                • post soviet russia

                                covert fascist regimes:

                                • neoliberalism
                                • feudalism
                                • republicanism (the roman concept, not the us political party, they actually fit into the above)
                                • bolshevism/stalinism/marxist-leninism
                                • anarcho-capitalism
                                • technocracy
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                                You're not at all worried about the phenomenon of diluting definitions of powerful words until they lose their power, are you?

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                                  I really love this cover of virtual insanity.

                                  https://youtu.be/ZTDcdRTziMM

                                  I know it's almost unrelated to the discussion because you're talking about the music video, but how often is Jamiroquai brought up?

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                                  Excellent

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                                    Went down a rabbit hole bc of this (thank you) and found out JK is a twinkess twin and so is Elvis

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                                      I see you have good taste.

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                                        You're not at all worried about the phenomenon of diluting definitions of powerful words until they lose their power, are you?

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                                        it's more like if we don't talk about how these schemes of oppression hand off to eachother, pass the baton, now, the knowledge becomes lost to everyone but the academics who study ur-fascism. i work to be very considered in how i phrase things because words have meaning. i also come at it from the angle that a lot of people living in the imperial cores of America, Russia, and China don't even recognize that they live in the hellscape outlined in George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty-Four and that talking about capitalism v communism is not the fight most of the world at large is having, they're talking about fascism v anarchy.

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                                          Cheeba cheeba is a helluva drug

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                                          Maybe I'm gonna have to get high just to get by

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