The dissonance of difference serves useful purposes for the continuity of cultural sytems.
Statistically Hipster
Counter-cultures that become popular inevitably invalidate themselves. You cannot actually exist on the periphery when everyone else inhabits the same space.
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...
