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John Skipp's avatar

I'm EXTREMELY interested in all the multiple forms of counterculture forming, and the ways they might intersect with the one I come from (predating the 50's in which I was born). And because the mainstream is more than happy to monetize anything they can squeeze a dime from, all the countercultures run through there at one vector or another. Attacking and/or being subsumed from the inside AND out! (Sounds like life on the food chain to me!)

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Matt's avatar

Controversial opinion: A counterculture is dependent on their being a homogenous culture in the first place. The mental model that people frequently have for the "counterculture" is the 60s. But we do not have a homogenous mainstream in the same way as we did back then so we cannot have a counterculture. We can only have subcultures that are more or less mainstream. The internet (among other things) killed the mainstream and the counterculture is collateral damage.

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