Are Subcultures Dead?
Teen Subcultures Are Fading. Pity the Poor Kids.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/mireille-silcoffnytimes.comSubcultures were the main creative cultural force from roughly 1975 to 2000, when they stopped working. Why?
David Chapman • Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution
One major benefit of subcultures is that they open up necessary space when the mainstream becomes too crowded. Now, thanks to the internet, everything is supposedly a subculture—the mainstream has supposedly broken into a thousand fragments. One would assume this creates more room for everyone to spread out, literally and figuratively, but even
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