Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture?

Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by wolverine876 on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @06:10PM (#34619449)

That argument seems to rationalize 4chan behavior by simply saying 'it's counter-culture', as if that makes the behavior better or worse, more or less bad or justified. It changes nothing; it's posers imitating counter-culture (by that definition).

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Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by majormajor on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @06:16PM (#34619544)

Yeah, there's a million corners of non-mainstream culture today that aren't 4chan and aren't just "edgy" middleschoolesque trolling that are also "countercultures". There's more variety than ever thanks to the ease of people connecting.

If you're betting that 4chan is the one that's going to stand out of "ahead of its time" you aren't doing it because "counterculture is always ahead" you're doing it because it's the one you personally focus on. Otherwise you'd have to be evaluating it against all the other counterculture things. And many of them are much less derivative and backwards-looking.

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Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by MacsHeadroom on Thursday February 02, 2023 @12:32AM (#34622506)

If it isn't offensive to mainstream sensibilities, it's a sub-culture not a counter-culture. You're describing sub-cultures of the mainstream.

For example, in the current year vegetarianism is a sub-culture of mainstream lifestyle dieting while carnivorism is a counter-culture.

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Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by CyberWraith on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @10:04PM (#34621515)

By opposing it, you further prove it IS counter-culture

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