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Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by dnissley on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:34PM (#34614196)
Here's one small "trad" expression I've seen that got some people riled up in the kind of way I would expect a counterculture to: the sqlite code of ethics https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html

Long hn thread about it from some months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31886687

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Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by undersuit on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:25PM (#34615069)
Two things can be true. Trads can be counter-cultural in the small tech society, and be the dominant culture in the majority of society.
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Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by dnissley on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:43PM (#34615417)
Most people in the US at least do not slot into any particular subculture. They are "normies" for lack of a better term: they don't intentionally curate their cultural selves -- they may have picked up some "trad" trappings (wearing a cross necklace, possessing handwavy religious beliefs like "believing in God"), and they may have "woke/queer" trappings (flying a rainbow flag on their house, possessing handwavy political beliefs like "supporting trans rights").
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