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Originally Posted by k-krack
Hardly, tough maybe for a time. Because for the most part, these "counter-cultures" become a stupid trend or a hip fad, and degenerate into something ridiculous. Allow me to bring up the whole "emo" nonsense. Surely, for a time, there must have been an amount of edginess and credibility to being involved with that, but it became something totally overblown and silly.
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Yes, but just because something gets popularized and an uncovered image- this doesn't neccessarily kill off the people within. Perhaps copies them onto a lot of others who like to wear some thicker skins over theirs... but the originals and true believers remain. Things like hippies and punks were mangled but it doesn't mean that weren't/aren't honest individuals and ideas amongst the rushing of marketing them out. Sometimes it's subtle and indescrpit... perhaps like now. The internet not only poses a new face for counter-culture, it's practically adding a new plane of existence to the human capacity and there's going to be a whole new voice that'll shape this one. And there'll be cyber punx.
Were in a strange transition- modern culture almost seems like a dry well. Entertainment has a tendency to dig back a few decades instead of investing a few new minds-- this goes for movies and music esp- i don't know much about modern books and fashion-- well that's just clothes.
It's also believed, in some circles, that the world's going to end or go through a great change. I myself at least like the mayan theroies in some romantic notion. But mayans be damned, there's going to be a change anyway-- and someone's going to be there to make a buck off it, and for the people buying... well, they could do worse- look at what was popular before them!