EDIT title should say “associated,” not “August”, apologies, am on mobile
I'm looking for subreddits, hashtags or real world phenomena that you think are related and interesting.
The antiwork movement seems to be a new genuine anti-capitalist social movement on a scale not seen in this century or the latter half of the last one.
The associated term “great resignation” is also interesting but there seems to be a wider set of related phenomena.
My kind of pet theory of the current historical moment is that it's a return to the “years when decades happen” after roughly four or five “decades where nothing happened.”
The social movements of the 1960s ran out of steam in the seventies and were replaced in the 80s by blatant hedonism and in the nineties by grunge Nihilism and generation x apathy
The 2000s and 2010s were also largely nihilistic but increasingly despairing and shell shocked
That's been building up to the 2020s which are I think a relative peak
We also had the end of the cold war (30 years) and the paralysis of neoliberalism (almost forty years), two other kinds of apathy or paralysis
Whereas now things seem to be really moving. There was also the global protest wave of 2019/2020 and of course there's the coronavirus
But that seems like the external shock that released a bunch of underlying pressure and unleashed pent up stuff, including possibly the war in Ukraine, something that's been building up for a while
Anyway what's going on, what's the overall, big picture narrative, and failing any single all encompassing answer to that question, what are some other components, ideas, movements, hashtags etc, that relate