Yeah this is all making me wonder why we're looking for a singular dominant culture to which there are one or more counter-cultures. Pretty sure one of the can

Yeah this is all making me wonder why we're looking for a singular dominant culture to which there are one or more counter-cultures. Pretty sure one of the canonized characteristics of post-modernity (or the post-cold war era if you dont like pretentious art terms) is pluralism. This spicy thread seems to reinforce the feeling that the dominant culture has (and maybe always was) some horrifying unknowable ever-changing organic mass of competing counter-cultures. Paraphrasing some dead social philosopher, history and cultures aren't bedtime stories or cartoon characters and we create dangerous false narratives, policies and hierarchies when we indulge the impulse to reduce them into these.