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🆕☮️✝️ “Wreckage: the culture war” Can better understanding of both sides’ motivations lead to resolution?

The culture war, political polarization, Baby Boomer bafflement: the unending zombie slugfest pairing the two countercultures of the 1960s-80s.

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You seem to be pretty quick with declaring a culture dead - do you flesh this out somewhere?

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less confrontationally, what would be a useful definition of culture death, and while we're at it, what makes a living culture?

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those are big questions! What specifically prompts them?

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specifically, I disagree that subcultures are dead (synkretie.net/writings/subcu - I am not especially nice to you there, sorry)

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Finally had a chance to read this! I hope I can clarify the issues when I write more about subcultures.

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Would it be rude to ask how old you are? (I’m kind of guessing you weren’t around during what I call the “subcultural era”)

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@allgebrah

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open your dms if you're interested in the precise age - but yes, I wasn't around then

10:40 AM · Nov 6, 2016Twitter Web Client

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Sorry, I was asleep—I think you can DM me now! Exact age maybe not relevant… Question is, how did subcultures change around 2000?

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I’m not sure I’ve got a really good answer to that, but do think they stopped functioning as they had.