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Technology is the Problem

Post author By G
Post date Sep 5, 2025
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The refrain once urged us to expand: “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” Its inversion is now the survival mechanism: Tune out, turn off, drop in. Digital platforms have mastered the art of capture. They are not designed to serve us but to extract attention, time, and revenue from us. The architecture is parasitic—every click […]

Tags counter-culture, isolation, money, profit, stupid, technology

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Counter-culture as Useful Entropy

Post author By G
Post date Jun 10, 2019
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The dissonance of difference serves useful purposes for the continuity of cultural sytems.

Tags change, continuity, counter culture, counter-culture, culture, difference, dissonance, ideology, japan, metamorphosis, operating system, Philosophy, politics, Psychology, punk, punk rock, sub-culture, subculture, virtual machine

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Statistically Hipster

Counter-cultures that become popular inevitably invalidate themselves. You cannot actually exist on the periphery when everyone else inhabits the same space.

Tags Complexity, conformity, counter-culture, culture, difference, emergence, equilibrium, fashion, hipster, identity, probability, sub-culture

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Semiotic Elasticity

There is in essence no true “outside” or inalienable “counter” culture; everything exists on some interior surface, warped and twisted back upon and through itself…

Tags branding, counter-culture, culture, logic, semiotics, symbol, symbolism, symbols