“Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution” (riffing on @vgr’s Gervais Principle) http://meaningness.com/metablog/geeks-mops-sociopaths …pic.twitter.com/rpcNaZhS4h
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“Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution” (riffing on @vgr’s Gervais Principle) http://meaningness.com/metablog/geeks-mops-sociopaths …pic.twitter.com/rpcNaZhS4h
@Meaningness This describes actors like Boing Boing well.
@St_Rev @Meaningness Reminds me of your motto "freaks create, progs occupy"
@sarahdoingthing @St_Rev may have been some direct influence
@sarahdoingthing @St_Rev immediate inspiration was an intriguing-sounding paper cited by the Céline Dion book about taste and social class:
@sarahdoingthing @St_Rev http://www.jstor.org/stable/2096460 "a shift in the basis for elite status—from snobbish exclusion to omnivorous appropriation."
@sarahdoingthing @St_Rev Paper’s data sucks, but its analytical speculations are insightful as to why subcultures broke down around 2000.
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