This seems a little too glib by half. What do you mean by “the weirdo search...was little impeded”? I personally found the search for common weirdos in the 90s to be excruciating. It’s one of the reasons I’m an unabashed fan of social media. It’s SO much better now to be weird.
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“it” in the clause you elided is “authenticity”
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bulk of twentieth century it’s an easy claim to poke holes in but there was a time when there were for example TV shows you could talk to effectively everyone about because effectively everyone had seen them at the same time
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I think about this a lot. Legacy media was terrible in the way it distorted information and twisted the facts to serve its narratives, but at least it gave the people a common purporse and a sense of belonging. My normie side is constantly aching for that.
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Wait a moment, you said “having n cultures and n^2 countercultures {again}" What historical period are you thinking about? Wasn't most of human history just a case of a monoculture in which everything changed very slowly?
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Strong agree!
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The 35% who said "show results" are exactly the normies who have been so damaged.
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You can’t harm the normies; tragically they always win
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