And, at the same time, there are no young/anti-establishment people of today of any consequence.
Not in any such numbers as to constitute an actual counter-culture anyway...
Not in any such numbers as to constitute an actual counter-culture anyway...
Paper Magazine, the New York Times, and Gothamist now mostly reflect the same cultural ideals. It's fascinating. Was this what the 80s was like?
Was he successful? He certainly convinced most of the people on the right, but they were already on his bandwagon anyway... As someone in the middle, it's looking more and more like he had a point. (Even if the site that bears his name has become.. well, whatever it is, now.)
It has a few places people hang out, occasionally they organize this or that, and they have a good time.
Other than that just as insignificant, in influence, in power, in numbers and in mass appeal as the juggalo scene.
Not much to write home about.
LGBTQ spaces and movements? Black Lives Matter? Occupy Wall St and the subsequent progressive upswell which led to Bernie Sanders, an unknown independent from Vermont, to garner nearly as many votes as one of the most well-known politicians on the planet?
If tame middle aged people who listen to Enya and mass media outlets can root for your cause, you're not exactly a counter-culture.
Neither of these is a small niche. Police brutality is a huge, huge issue. It may seem like a small niche to people who are not members of targeted demographics, though.
> and are otherwise totally content with modern society.
What leads you to believe this? From my personal experience this couldn't be more wrong
Anyway, if you want real counter culture that middle aged people will still clutch their pearls over... what about Antifa?
I'm not saying it's not important -- but as a request for change it is niche in scope, that is constrained to a small area of life (even if you are one of the targeted demographics).
>What leads you to believe this?*
Well, some internet ranting and rare protesting aside I don't see any alternative lifestyles there (or only very trite ones, the "fair trade coffee" equivalent of politics). It's all business as usual otherwise.
>Anyway, if you want real counter culture that middle aged people will still clutch their pearls over... what about Antifa?
Better in the shocks middle aged people respect, but scores less points on "culture". It's a reaction-based group, not an alternative cultural force.
The specter of police violence is not constrained to a small area of life for members of targeted demographics....
To argue, as BLM does, that we should restructure the entire policing system (some say even dismantle it) is to conduct a reimagining of what power and authority means in this country.
In a place where "law and order" (one of Trump's favorite phrases) and the administration of "justice" is upheld as the highest ideal, to decisively argue against normative ideas of them is certainly counter culture.
Also antifa is not reactionary. Many members of antifa orgs run community kitchens, organize reading groups, or build small farms or communes.
It might not be easily understood, but it's usually both easily recognizable and frequently condemned.
We're not talking about some secret society, but about major currents for change.
>Remember ever cool word/ term you knew as a kid and how they immediately stopped being cool once you heard your parents use them?
Yes. That's pop culture. Not anti-establishment culture.