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People in the 90s/00s had their own provincial value systems. Not anymore imo.
| cowgod | 06/12/26 |
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Date: June 12th, 2026 6:35 PM Author: cowgod It’s all The Same now. The internet and social media did two contradictory things at once: they made people more alone, and they made their desires more identical. Before that, even a shitty high school could have its own private value system. It was not good. It was not enlightened. But it was local. The girls in my high school cared more about dick size than phenotype. The Jocks cared more about blowjobs than bone structure. Nobody was talking about GPA-maxxing, money, OCI, elite credentials, facial thirds, hunter eyes, or whatever later became the universal online anthropology of being judged by strangers.
There was a local myth. Shoe size divided by two equals dick size. That was what they said. It was stupid. It was also sovereign. It belonged to that hallway, those lockers, those girls, those football players, those parking lots, that dumb little kingdom. For a time, that was the whole court of appeal. Not the global market. Not TikTok. Not Instagram. Not some girl in Miami explaining what a man should make by 30. Not some autistic looksmaxxing tribunal measuring jaws like they were forensic evidence from an extinct tribe.
Hollywood existed, but Hollywood was fake in an obvious way. Movie stars were fake. Music videos were fake. Rich people on television were fake. You could see the glass between you and them. Social media removed the glass. It made the outside world feel real. Worse, it made it feel nearby. A woman in your town could suddenly compare her life not to the girls at school, or her cousin, or the guy with the Camaro, but to ten thousand curated fragments of lives that were not even lives. Bodies, vacations, apartments, engagement rings, faces, salaries, men. Everything became apparently attainable and therefore humiliating.
That is the real poison. Social media does not merely show people things. It teaches them what to want. It manufactures mimetic desire in Women and Scumbaguettes who, in a merciful older world, might have remained blissfully provincial. They might have wanted the wrong things, but they would have wanted them in peace. They would have wanted the quarterback, or the funny burnout, or the guy with big shoes, or the senior with a truck. Now they want an algorithmic man assembled from other Women’s envy.
The old standards were crude, but they were human. They had mud on them. They smelled like locker rooms, cheap perfume, cafeteria fries, cigarettes, Aqua Net, cut grass, and bad decisions made after a game. The new standards smell like nothing. They come from nowhere and everywhere. They are sterile. They are numerical. They are administered by girls who think they are choosing freely and boys who think they are being judged scientifically.
This is the great Joke of the feed imo. It atomizes everyone, then gives them the same dreams. It puts each person alone in a room and whispers the same commandments through the little glass rectangle. Be hotter. Be richer. Be taller. Be more symmetrical. Be more optimized. Desire used to be stupid in a local way. Now it is stupid in a universal way. The village idiot has been replaced by the global idiot, and the global idiot has analytics.
So yes, shoe size divided by two was insane. But it was our insanity. It had borders. It had a zip code. It was said by real girls to real boys in a real hallway, and for one strange minute in American history, it was enough.
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