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Re:The Offline Club by Dilettante_ on Thursday June 26, 2025 @07:31AM (#44386346)
"Geeks, MOPs and Psychopaths"¹ is a good article about this, most importantly because it gives a grippy name to the phenomenon.

¹https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

Re:The Offline Club by sandspar on Friday June 27, 2025 @02:35AM (#44394226)
My mind jumped here too.

From the article:

>Subcultures were the main creative cultural force from roughly 1975 to 2000, when they stopped working. Why?

>One reason—among several—is that as soon as subcultures start getting really interesting, they get invaded by muggles, who ruin them.

>The muggles who invade and ruin subcultures come in two distinct flavors, mops and sociopaths, playing very different roles.