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Comment by katmannthree | Hacker News Reader

Seems more like 14 signs that the author is living in a bubble, they've missed that the US is currently in the middle of a fairly nasty culture war.

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I mean, if you let "culture" be defined by corporate media and advertisements, then yeah the culture is stagnant. But at least half of the population (at least in the US) spends a non-insignificant amount of time outside of that and in other cultural spheres. It almost seems like the author is hoping for the same corporate sponsors to feed them a prepackaged "alternative" in the vein of the Coke Pepsi non-choice.

The American culture war is very boring and neither side is a counter-culture. They’re both rather centrist corporatists. They largely consume the same mainstream media, the same products, the same music. No one’s “fighting the power” they’re just “fighting to be the power.”

They buy the same food from the same 5 megacorps, they watch movies and tv produced by another 5 megacorps…

Americans can’t ever be arsed to put together a general strike.

Those aren’t the important differences in the culture war. There are real differences in 1. rural vs urban living and 2. family structure and relation to sex.

(Conservatives have more children earlier in life, and despite talking about anti-sex more, aren’t as successful at it as liberals.)

Also, big companies are good and are more productive at agriculture. Though, the reason we have them is that family farmers intentionally sold their farms to corporations because their wives were in danger of making their own money from parts of them.

This doesn’t make anything I said less true.

A bullshit culture war, that is.

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