18 July

"The “alt-music” image of a counterculture is a 20th century affectation; an evanescent form produced by radio and television, by Hollywood and the music industry. Those cultural forms are the empty vessel that 20th century counterculture was poured into... ...The same degree of youthful societal engineering is still there, too, only this time the youth have been able to seize the medium of communication (the internet). The end result is something that we haven’t seen before—a counterculture so huge that it feels like a part of normal culture because it can go toe to toe with its parent culture and win." James Horton, missing that it's not that youth have control of the internet, it's that the adults there are also youth. 'Online' was built using adolescent culture as its model. The smallest kids and oldest adults are sharing the same culture. https://jimhorton.substack.com/p/wait-is-woke-the-new-counterculture?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web