Protein LECTURE with Edmond Lau: Are You A Duppie?
Join us on Thursday 26th November at Protein STUDIOS for the third event in our new LECTURE series. Led by creative strategist and meme artist Edmond Lau, he'll unpack duppie culture, and why the future of the downwardly mobile isn't all doom. For a taste of what you can expect, you can read Edmond's SEED Yuppie to Duppie here.
Once, there was no question that bouncy, fresh young things, with their pleasant upbringings and fancy degrees, were destined for a life of stable employment and home-ownership. The yuppie epitomised the laissez-faire life of the 1980s, but today, the same stock of people, with the same educational and social credentials as their predecessors, are finding themselves downwardly mobile. More duppie than yuppie.
Whether it’s AI fuelled redundancies, brain-rot addled minds, or simply the cut-throat pressures of corporate life, more and more, young people find themselves crushed into a thin paste, unable to reconstitute their parents earlier success for themselves. But the death of the professional-managerial dream may actually be a blessing in disguise. Did you really want to work at Deloitte anyway?
Doors: 6pm
Lecture: 7pm
Drinks + Music: 8pm
Close: 9pm
Protein XYZ + STUDIOS Members get free access and you should have received your complimentary code, if not please contact: members@protein.xyz