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Counter culture is one thing, but the important bit is DIY, maybe more specifically DIT, do it together. This isn't about being offline, private, modest, etc.,
by dfxm12 3y ago
Counter culture is one thing, but the important bit is DIY, maybe more specifically DIT, do it together. This isn't about being offline, private, modest, etc., it's about seeing the rat race coming and stepping aside. They understand that ticketmaster & live nation probably own most of the venues in town, so if you don't want to play by their rules, you'll have to spend your entertainment dollars elsewhere, or if you're really into it, start your own venue for you and your friends and fly under the radar.
This goes for other industries too. While someone is bellyaching that amazon owns publishing, a "punk" is self publishing, and using their lessons learned to help their friends. In that way, it's like the hacker community...
I'm reminded by posts here complaining about ubereats, even in dense cities like LA, SF or NY. Why does it never occur to these people to call the restaurants directly to cut uber eats out of the equation? Yeah, it's like 5% less convenient, but it allays a ton of concerns on both ends of the transaction. It's things like this, regular people helping regular people, not rent seekers...
- BlueTemplar 3y agoSpeaking of counter-cultural (?) publishing... https://www.ecosophia.net/writing-as-microcosm-part-one-publish-and-perish/ https://www.ecosophia.net/writing-as-microcosm-part-one-publ...
- MSFT_Edging 3y ago> to call the restaurants directly I love doing this. I don't understand why people bother with the apps, it's just psychic torture knowing some MBA is getting my hard earned money just for making some radio boxes to middle-man it.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoWhile it is probably not possible to speak of "the entire punk movement" as a single thing (to the extent that there even is a punk movement per se), but the 1970s punk movement in London was not motivated by: > seeing the rat race coming and stepping aside it was a response to several different elements occuring alongside and simultaneously: * the bleakness of 1970s Britain * the perception of significant barriers to entry into the world of artistic creation (i.e. you needed to be "very good" or even "virtuosic" to participate) * racial dynamics unfolding as the children of the Windrush generation began to come of age, and new waves of immigrants from the "Commonwealth" were more visibly present. * boredom with the latest Yes album There was no rat race coming - almost nobody was going to participate in that (a good and a bad thing, all at once). Now, punk in NYC at about the same time might have been very different, and I'm certain that punk in other places and later times has almost certainly been very different. But that original incarnation was not an attempt to avoid the rat race, it was a desperate reaching for something of one's own (even if that was just a white riot), because society wasn't going to give you anything worth having.
- dfxm12 3y agoThere was no rat race coming - almost nobody was going to participate in that (a good and a bad thing, all at once). Yes, they all stepped aside to make their own England, their own galleries or music halls, which gave people like Don Letts a place to thrive, etc. it was a desperate reaching for something of one's own It sounds like you don't disagree...