Why is the the 19th century American frontier so popular in culture nowadays?
The Late modern period (1780-1945) was an extremely kino time in human history and the Old West exists during the peak of it
>>18575331Period 1780-1830 is peak of human civilization.
>>18575367>a simple fever can kill you>most people shit outside like indians>you earn like 50$ a month working for 80 hours in a coal mineNo thanks
>>18575367lol, no, it was beging of the end
>>18575372>a simple fever can kill youAntibiotics invented in very end of the 1920s.>most people shit outside like indiansUrbanisation boom is 1950s for America and 1960s for Europe.>you earn like 50$ a month working for 80 hours in a coal mineOnly since WW1 miners begin to earn more than 50$.So, from all period of 1780-1945 only last 15 years make possible to you live like white man.
>>18575487That's what I said.Peak=Beginning of the end
>>18575268a reminder american cowboy culture was appropriated from spanish-mexican vaquero culture after they stole the land
>>18575268>unexplored wilderness ripe for exploration>anarchy and lawlessness make for an easy backdrop for character archetypes, i. e. writing is easy>tons of adventures to be had, no matter how weird and outlandish your story is, it doesn't seem too out of place, accountants are as believable in that story as sunken cities of gold>speaks of past days of glory and heroism>at the same time, it's close enough to feel a connection to>not many props needed, just put up some fake storefronts and visit the local hat shop and you have yourself a film set, no elaborate royal dresses or expensive plate armor, i. e. comparatively easy to produce media
It was cool as shit
>>18575268>Why is the the 19th century American frontier so popular in culture nowadays?Is this the 1940s?
>>18575566don't forget>recent history at the time culturally defining industries (film, mass market paperbacks) became super popular>not far from Los Angeles, the center of the American Film Industry
Amerimutts can't stop losing wars to far weaker foes and therefore look up back to their forebears' "glorious" beating up of paleolithic level enemies.
>>18575702what cunt you from? post on /int/ so we can see your flag.
>>18575496kek, love how true this technically is
>>18575499Based, cry more brownoid
>>18575499How far back do you go to say "no that culture isn't integrated and a different thing you just copied it." Since Mexican cowboys and American cowboys are still distinct
>>18575268Popular nowadays? It's less popular now than it used to be in the 20th century, where it was ridiculously popular. Even Hitler and Stalin was fans of Westerns, that's how prevalent it used to be.
>>18575499Brown cope resentment. Always delicious tears
>>18576210Red Dead Redemption 2 has sold about 100 million copies, if anything the western genre is more popular than it's ever been
>>18576597That doesn't mean the genre is popular, that means the game is popular. If the genre is popular, there should be a wave of western content dominating all over the place, from games to movies to books, like there used to be in the 20th century or how it was during the zombie craze in the early 2010s where damn near everything had zombies in it. Other than RDR2, I can't think of anything related to westerns that has been popular in this past decade.
>>18576620Desu it is genuinely odd that there aren’t more cowboy games. I think these studios are afraid of being measured against Red Dead
>>18575268It was kino. Read up on what was going on in the semi-lawless New Mexico Territory which was the Wild West at its rawest before men like Fred Harvey and Governor Sheldon came. You had legendary outlaws like Billy the Kid and the Clanton Gang (yes the gang from Blood Meridian was an IRL gang), native American tribes, untamed wilderness, small towns where the law was just a sheriff and his deputies, and of course cowboys.
>>18575372>most people shit outsidetaking a dump in nature is very relaxing and bonds you to the earth.t. geologist who shits outside all the time.
>>18576620>I can't think of anything related to westerns that has been popular in this past decade.It's all "Neo-Westerns"WestworldYellowstone etc etc
>>18575702You sound brown
>>18577921And at the same time you had celebrities like Oscar Wilde touring the west, Indians in Wild West shows touring the east and Europe, dime novels building cowboy and outlaw myths even as the real thing was happening, and technology like the telegraph and photography bringing the wildness straight back to civilization. It was a short window of Victorian civilization clashing with Neolithic tribes, with cowboys, miners, loggers and railroad men grabbing raw materials for the Industrial Revolution.
