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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 wow that was fantastic. Q: remind me again, why did this dynamic end in 2000? Seems alive and well to me...
@KevinSimler Yeah, it’s a non-obvious argument, 15,000 words or so, so hard to fit in a tweet. In draft form now.
@KevinSimler One thing is that tacit awareness of the dynamics I described here is common, so no one can invest in subcultures as much.
@KevinSimler Another thing is that a single subculture can’t provide enough meaning. So increasingly people were in several,
@KevinSimler and that drove the cultural system toward atomization rather than distinct subcultures.
@Meaningness makes a lot of sense. But there are still subcultures around (e.g. LessWrong). Is your point that they're fewer/weaker now?
@KevinSimler Weaker; and they aren’t the driving force of cultural evolution in the same way they were. This is clearest in musical genres,
@KevinSimler There’s new musical genres, but they no longer can build a complete culture around themselves, don’t compel fanaticism, and
@Meaningness @KevinSimler @sebpaquet's main case study of a scene is quebec punk rock scene. And yeah, music is now a feature, not a product
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