You talk about free speech because you wish for hate crimes to go unpunished; I talk about free speech because I wish for the creative flourishing of the oppressed majority.
We're not the same
Yeah I could link you to the article, it gets very sociological so I was having trouble wading through it myself XD. It is centered around this concept of "affect" which I had a hard time understanding; one definition is that it is kind of like "the background noise" that defines a society or time, things people take for granted. I don't think they mean myths in a like Ancient Greek sense, but just referring to the stories that society tells itself or the different stories people tell themselves about what their life purpose is or who they are.
As a "born digital" audiovisual music genre and visual aesthetic, vaporwave channels remnants of popular culture, advertising, and consumer technology from the 1980s and early 1990s. retrieving the strange sense of affective potential that still echoes within the outmoded, depleted myths of that...
I'd take it piece by piece, but its pretty interesting. I think it takes a nuanced perspective, and also criticizes the defining of vaporwave as just "anti-consumer," but obviously it is much more than just that