I keep thinking about this @Meaningness piecehttps://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths …
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something about it resonates more for me this year, as I'm just feeling more and more numbed and acclimated to the fires of the culture wars
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there's something coolly detached,about the feelings here. I'm still young enough that watching one of my subcultures get mopped (or worse) has some bitterness attached to it. how many times do I watch that happen before it doesn't sting?
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Building in to subcultures a system of degrees of initiation. The mops don't get past the third degree, similar to esoteric societies. If they show greater interest and initiative, they can proceed upward.
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yeah, which is a formalization of gatekeeping, which is a common feature of many subcultures (including mine). ultimately though a lot of this is totally inevitable. I'm mourning my losses, basically. the gatekeeping doesn't work against the flood.
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