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The article defines punk (in general) as a deviant subculture that parents are afraid of. Perhaps the general decline of punk can be attributed to modern paren
by DanI-S 16y ago
The article defines punk (in general) as a deviant subculture that parents are afraid of.
Perhaps the general decline of punk can be attributed to modern parents being much less afraid than parents in the 70s. Cyberpunk isn't really exciting when your parents all have iPhones.
- demosthenes 16y agoI'm not sure why Anonymous does not fit the article's definition.
- kragen 16y agoThey do, explicitly: Contrary to this, CHAN-culture (imageboards, fast communication channels) and the ANON-meme (crowd orientated cyber actions) try different ways in waging real mass-based cyberwars, they reach this point by being more punk again, punk as in: deviant subculture that parents are afraid of. I read this as saying that Anonymous and 4chan (and friends) have reached the point of being punk again, in that sense.
- jokermatt999 16y agoBetween Anonymous and Wikileaks, I feel like we're practically living in a cyberpunk story. We're just the blissfully uninvolved citizens who don't live in the seedy underbelly.
- DanI-S 16y agoI'm not sure we at Hacker News are blissfully uninvolved; we're busy building tomorrow's sinister megacorporations. Or Mr Lee's Greater Hong Kong.
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- count 16y agoAt what point do you realize what you're building is what your protagonist heros always fought against? And does that realization make you stop?