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0 pointsJKCalhoun3y ago0 comments

> If you think a sense of sameness pervades the creative world then you must be looking at a woefully tiny portion of the creative world. It has never been easier to be weird nor easier to find weirdness.

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"Alternative voices exist-in fact, they are everywhere--but are rarely heard, and their cultural impact is negligible."

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jjk1663y ago

Not at all. The weird stuff is well heard and has a large cultural impact. You'll have no problem finding countless examples of weird things that have been viewed and interacted with by hundreds of thousands or even millions of people. Compare that to say a punk band in the 80s that may have only had a few thousand people ever see it perform, or even the entire hippie movement which was only about half a million people at its peak.

Yeah, these things are still smaller and less impactful than the mainstream culture, but that's what it means to be a counterculture.

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jjk1663y ago

Yeah, these things are still smaller and less impactful than the mainstream culture, but that's what it means to be a counterculture.

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