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He went off the rails before he even got started: "One reason—among several—is that as soon as subcultures start getting really interesting, they get invaded b
by jstewartmobile 8y ago
He went off the rails before he even got started:
"One reason—among several—is that as soon as subcultures start getting really interesting, they get invaded by muggles, who ruin them."
Many of these subcultures come into being when people working from an unusual set of values and perceptions find each other. We're all mainlining the same Netflix/Facebook/Twitter/etc now. How much harder must it be to end up that unusual in a global web-based monoculture?
I guess we still have subcultures in some sense... it's just that they now have world-wide membership and the populations of small countries.
That, and year 2000 was just around the time most westerners plugged into the matrix.
- krapp 8y ago"One reason—among several—is that as soon as subcultures start getting really interesting, they get invaded by muggles, who ruin them." Yes. Nothing is worse than when normal people ruin your quirky, exclusive niche thing by liking the same thing you like, contributing to it and making a part of mainstream culture. I'm going to go watch anime on the web and work on Unity projects now. Reeeeee.
- jstewartmobile 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...