in the brief window when scarce broadcast media gave America a single culture, the normie search for authenticity via commonality was well served and the weirdo search for it via obscurity little impeded. who is harmed most by us having n cultures and n² countercultures again?
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Replying to @chaosprime
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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Replying to @chaosprime
Yes, I feel I’m obviously missing your point and this typing with thumbs is a terrible medium for discussion. The search for authenticity via obscurity...I don’t grok why authenticity must have obscurity not what the relationship between the two is.
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Replying to @DrMattyG
there’s no need for it to, but thinking they go together is an occupational hazard of weirdos
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Replying to @chaosprime
That’s what the 90s gave us (or maybe just me?) for sure. A deep sense of isolation which left us scrabbling in the corners of culture for some semblance of emotional connection.
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