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0 pointsEupraxias3y ago0 comments

Any counter-culture requires there to be a culture.

We have no counter-culture, because there is no longer a strong, central culture.

4chan is one of many siloed cultures, not a counter-culture.

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I don’t wholly agree with you, but this is an interesting point. What does it mean to be “counterculture” in our increasingly fragmented culture? Perhaps the current debate here is so frenzied because each debater is speaking from their own island of culture, and some “other” mainstream always seems larger than their own?

EupraxiasOP3y ago

Thank you, I don't entirely agree with myself, and feel that it is too reductive a statement. It is at least worth considering that countercultures contrast best against cohesive cultures.

We're now lacking both, mostly due to the transformations of the information age and how that has split many homogeneous cultures into numerous segregated identity clusters. For what it is worth (which is nothing) in 1992 I predicted what we see now; it has unfolded exactly as I expected.

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