The Internet killed "monoculture". With no majority culture, by definition, it's hard to have counter culture.
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Counter-culture isnt singular, but yes, religion and trad behavior can be a form of counter culture
The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
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Re: The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
#172The real counterculture right now is non-participation . In a world where virtually everything is either designed to completely waste your time or fail and not be repairable, it's a highly radical act to stop consuming like the 95%, preferring to spend time with other humans in reality doing something that isn't technological. In spite of the popular world pushing the message that you will be fulfilled living in virt…
You had me until the weird put-down of soy and insects.
What's weird about it? I don't know about soy, but for insects if it weren't for the internet, they would be on far fewer people's radar. It's not an unrelated thing.
Re: The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you are risking fingers, cutting off body parts or taking dumb risks just stop. It's not worth it. It's not cool or interesting. These are the things you regret later. You did not get hurt here works until someone does get hurt and the hammer comes down on you.
This is why people think counterculture is dead. I've hurt myself badly many times and have never regretted it, because it was fun and incredibly intellectually satisfying. I know no-one at these places that regret it, everyone accepts that that they are all working to a common goal of being awesome
It's all fun and games until...
Re: The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
#174Re: The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
#175In order for the syntax of the word "counterculture" to be semantic, it is necessary that there be semantics for the word "culture".
Therefore, the question arises - is there any semantics of the word "culture" in the syntax-semantics of the word "Instagram"?
And, it turns out that there is the possibility of searching for "the denial of what cannot be at all" :)
Re: The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
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My non-tech-working buddies don’t understand why I don’t want to PC game on discord all night at the same desk I just spent all day working in. Hell, even some of my tech-working buddies don’t either. Kinda ironic that it’s more often than not the techie folks who are unplugging more often so to speak.
Ya I work in tech for the opp to keep it all at a distance from me. I’ve specifically thought about how stupid the loop is of building stuff at the computer and then turning around and consume all the same stuff I build for work (so to speak). Every time I’m on Reddit I hate myself. I also hate that that I can’t install an easy DNS blocking tool that isn’t likely selling my traffic and also works always (ie mobile an…
Just thinking out loud here because I haven’t actually looked into this, but isn’t the second half just running your own DNS with black lists and pointing your phone at it?
Just did a quick search in my iPhone settings and it seems like I can’t actually set up DNS myself. I do know I can configure a VPN, point it at your home network, at that point the PiHole can do its thing again.
Re: The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
#177If you have the support of almost the entirety of academia, half of the political establishment, the highest levels of government, multinational corporations, etc. you're not the counterculture "resistance"... You're the evil empire.
Re: The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
#178The real counterculture right now is non-participation . In a world where virtually everything is either designed to completely waste your time or fail and not be repairable, it's a highly radical act to stop consuming like the 95%, preferring to spend time with other humans in reality doing something that isn't technological. In spite of the popular world pushing the message that you will be fulfilled living in virt…
the radical sets their phone to "do not disturb" and plays frisbee-golf or pub trivia I have recently been surprised to learn how robust both the stamp collecting and model railroading hobbies are these days. Living in the HN bubble, I just assumed they were both dead. They're not. Not by a long shot. I wonder what other "old timey" hobbies are still popular.
I don't think any "old timey" hobbies are dead, at least not in my area. There are even subcultures like blacksmithing, cobbling, etc.
But you won't find any of these online.
Re: The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
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Some people really really hate tofu I guess. Probably never had a great mapo tofu, that stuff slaps
Mapo tofu doesn't seem like a good counterexample since the pork component is as important as the tofu to the dish. Granted there are veg versions using mushrooms as an alternative.
Is a tofu+pork dish not considered “consuming soy products”?
Re: The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
#180The real counterculture right now is non-participation . In a world where virtually everything is either designed to completely waste your time or fail and not be repairable, it's a highly radical act to stop consuming like the 95%, preferring to spend time with other humans in reality doing something that isn't technological. In spite of the popular world pushing the message that you will be fulfilled living in virt…
I think this is accurate. I feel more on the outside the more I push into keeping costs low, not opting in to millennial megaplex apartments, all the consumption, all the social media. I hate feeling like in this position of a Luddite-hipster but I’m not hustling in my career and comp just do I can suck all my money and time into that. But increasingly, doing this brands you as “alternative.”
> I hate feeling like in this position of a Luddite-hipster
Wanting a well-balanced life isn't being a "luddite". Also, the term "luddite" as an insult is in fashion these days and is tossed around so often that it's become mostly meaningless anyway. It does tell you something interesting about the people who use it, though.