I think a lot of polarized online politics are presaged by punk/hardcore/post-punk youth subcultures of the 1980’s and 1990’s
Straightedge, skinhead, riot grrl etc
This essay by Aaron Lake Smith discusses the origins of call out culture in the anarchist/punk subculture and seeing it go mainstream oldwaysways.com/tryhard-lateco…
Just seem really clear that puritanical straightedge are today's Woke, that the Goths and kids lipsynching to midnight Rocky Horror Picture Show screenings are today's trans, Gavin McInness is a direct link between the right wing fringe of 90's punk to Proud Boys...
And it's hard to quite grasp how these cartoon adolescent politics became mainstream, which is why I think that these dramas are palliatives for the "terminal boredom at the end of history"
Maximum Rock n Roll columnist Mykel Board's early 1990's version of "both sides are bad" punk politics "Don't you know you're just the same? Don't you know you're just as lame?" etc.
I was in a band with Artless' guitar player who earnestly believed that Board was an FBI informant who went undercover in the punk world and went native and never left
Which calls to mind this amusing theory that the musicians in Laurel Canyon that created the hippie subculture, some of whom were the sons of naval intelligence officers, had been planted to subvert the Left ...and became huge rock stars... pleasekillme.com/cia-rock-roll/
It is absolutely amazing that Jim Morrison's father basically started the Vietnam War
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Remind me who was running the WH when Reagan was incapacitated by dementia in his second term?
Now would be a great time to film an amusing picaresque about Reagan’s second term....
The guy was out to lunch and defeated global communism. Does America continue to benefit from the special providence that god reserves for fools, dunks and the United States of America?
People who understand the social construction of race are engineering a new elite ethnogenesis: assortative mating at Ivies will create racially mixed elite overclass as remaining legacy and athlete whites mate with "POC" majority
This is "dismantling whiteness" in practice. Soon, K-12 schools will teach majority POC classes that the new locus of American national unity is the POC nation overcoming the remaining influence of Trumpian whiteness
Good post on a medical student named Kieran Bhattacharya who raised some concerns after a micro aggressions seminar and was “subjected to formal censure, repeated psychological evaluations, suspension, and eventual expulsion.”
As I used to say, “cancel culture” was just a means and an expression of a not yet fully unconsummated will to power; now that they have the power to subject someone to psychological evaluation and expulsion for questioning their dogmas, we have moved on to the successor regime
Would be interested in @davidafrench’s thoughts on the post and the lawsuit linked within it
We need actors to do word for word dramatic re-enactments of SF school board meetings
So the board audited its own restorative practices and found that they were polluted by white supremacy culture
It's funny, etc. But it's also the governing body for a major American city's public school system, educating 57,000 students. This is the Successor Regime in power.
In 2018, Kendrick Lamar threatened to pull his music off Spotify if they implemented a "Hate Content and Hateful Conduct" policy that would removed R. Kelly and others.
That put a stop to the move toward censorship for a few years.
YouTube announced they would not be removing Meet the Flockers a little more than a week ago. Curious to see reporting from the inside on how and why they reversed course so quickly.
My first Asian friend at school was the son of a Hong Kong ship's captain from a wealthy merchant family who would beat the hell out of his two sons and wife.
My parents got upset when he told me that physical strength was the most important thing in life.
He moved to the rural West of NJ by the PA border in third grade and became a hugely muscled redneck.
It was useful for my formative years that the toughest bully in class was an Asian kid