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The Thinking Kid's counterCulture to the Consoomer Boy's MonoCulture (birbantum.substack.com)

posted 169 days ago by WastedTimeForCharlie 169 days ago by WastedTimeForCharlie +7 / -2

The Thinking Kid's counterCulture to the Consoomer Boy's MonoCulture

As I stated in my Superman series the image of modernity is changing to reflect the things from the media we consume, from the objects that we place on our work desks to the very tattoos on our very skin. Post 1960s AD, the image of the Geek/nerd/Trekkie, ...

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– ernsithe 2 points 169 days ago +2 / -0

What in the fuck am I reading.

He's badly referencing a quote from the first MIB movie.

Edwards : Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it.
Kay : A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.

As badly worded and autistic as that point comes across, he's not wrong. Take a bunch of seemingly based individuals, put them in a group, and massive cringe will emerge quickly. It's called "podcasting."

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