What are some books about geek culture?

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Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:12:28 2018 No.10905307 [Reply] [Original]

What are some books about geek culture?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:16:25 2018 No.10905324 File: 149 KB, 510x346, IMG_1063[1].png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10905307 Maters of Doom why do people keep making fun of this guy? he's just reacting to trailer. What have you never been excited before?

Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:19:01 2018 No.10905336

>>10905324
>why do people keep making fun of this guy? he's just reacting to trailer. What have you never been excited before?
I think the issue is how forced and for-profit it is. I'll admit that I screamed when Shenmue III was revealed, but I'd never film myself for it, now matter how genuine my excitement was.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:20:34 2018 No.10905345 File: 58 KB, 800x565, ernest cline.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ready Player One and Armada accidentally expose how vapid geek culture is. Ernest Cline is a shallow consumerist who doesn't have any self-awareness whatsoever.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:20:54 2018 No.10905348 >>10905307 Jesus Christ, its like watching my three year old get excited.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:26:17 2018 No.10905367 File: 2.10 MB, 650x364, Avengers_ Infinity War - Official Trailer 2 REACTION! soyboy.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:31:25 2018 No.10905379

That's it. I'm going to write a book about Soyboys called "SOY". It'll be like Houllebecq's Submission but explore the realities of how dangerous popculture and using it as a replacement for real religion and literature. The main character one day wakes up and realizes he has nothing in common with his "geek" friends and tries to befriend some normies but realizes he doesn't fit in there either after being cock blocked. In turn he sets out to start some anit-popculture movement which spawns into a religion. Simon Pegg plays the main character in the inevitable movie adaptation.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:34:54 2018 No.10905392 >>10905345 >>10905379 Why did Simon Pegg agree to star in Ready Player One after he wrote that greentext about geek culture?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:36:41 2018 No.10905398 >>10905392 I would guess Spielberg talked him into it. He's a massive Spielberg fanboy.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:37:43 2018 No.10905402 Explain why geek culture is vapid.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:38:18 2018 No.10905404 >>10905307 kill all normies

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:38:24 2018 No.10905405 >>10905379 Would read.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:39:34 2018 No.10905407 >>10905307 Start with the geeks.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:41:58 2018 No.10905417 >>10905307 Percy Jackson obviously.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:43:16 2018 No.10905423 >>10905392 Cash rules everything around me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:43:22 2018 No.10905424 >>10905379 I would read it. I also need something like The Man Asleep but with a geek protag obssesed with japanese culture.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:43:38 2018 No.10905426 File: 26 KB, 352x343, 1522162322870.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] CAPTAIN AMERICA!!!!

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:44:09 2018 No.10905429 I thought this was Riley and we were still making fun of him for losing Mew. >>10905379 Would read, but either needs a better title or damn good cover art.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:45:11 2018 No.10905432 >>10905307 I've never been that excited about anything in my life. Am I broken?

Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:47:06 2018 No.10905439
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>>10905402
It practically explains itself, anon. Grown men throw aside religion and philosophy and instead embrace silly comic books that were written to entertain children. These men spend all of their spare money on useless hunks of plastic and get orgasmic over formulaic blockbuster movies. If you don't see anything vapid about that then you're part of the problem.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:47:07 2018 No.10905440 >>10905432 Take into account that he's on camera looking for clicks, so his reactions are going to be turned up to 10.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:49:29 2018 No.10905444 >>10905432 No. It's not normal to be that excited about a fucking movie. I've been that excited after getting in a terrible car crash and not being injured, but that was a different emotion I think.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:49:29 2018 No.10905445 >>10905439 Who cares if they’re happy? It’s not as if philosophy or literature have an particule value either. Just do what makes you happy bro.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:50:18 2018 No.10905449 File: 25 KB, 364x302, T58Bp.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10905439

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 11:53:04 2018 No.10905458 File: 116 KB, 500x500, 03b.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10905445 >>10905449 I'm not falling for it. Geek culture manchildren don't browse /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:00:08 2018 No.10905468 >>10905307 Holy fuck. The soy-boys actually exist!

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:00:26 2018 No.10905469 https://youtu.be/PKuKx5K7e4c?t=50s

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:01:03 2018 No.10905472 >>10905379 Simply ebin. I'm sure it won't be didactic garbage.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:01:41 2018 No.10905475 >ppl don't realize this whole thread is viral marketing for captain america keep bumping the ads you fucking pleb trash

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:02:45 2018 No.10905478 >>10905392 >Why did Simon Pegg agree to star in Ready Player One $$$$$

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:04:20 2018 No.10905483 >>10905445 >>10905449 >haha just spend the rest of your life holed up in an opium den bro, as long as ur happy haha

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:04:39 2018 No.10905484 >>10905445 >"Explain why geek culture is vapid." >gets an answer >"Who cares if they're happy?" >"Just do what makes you happy bro." Why are you trying to dodge the fact that geek culture is completely hollow?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:06:14 2018 No.10905488 File: 32 KB, 220x380, 220px-Bimbos_of_the_Death_Sun_by_Sharyn_McCrumb_-_first_edition.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] An old book about a murder of a nasty but popular science fiction author taking place at a convention.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:09:28 2018 No.10905496 >>10905483 Literature is an opium too.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:10:02 2018 No.10905497 >>10905445 >Who cares if they’re happy? They're not, that's the problem. They've filled a hole in their life with pop culture knick-knacks

Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:10:49 2018 No.10905500

>>10905484
geek culture is just a nostalgia trip like sports fandom, it's not like people who watch sports arent just tripping back to their days in little league in grammar school or being a high school in hero or whatever, geek culture is the same stuff but for the less athletic, nostalgia for video games, cartoons, comic books, etc. feeding manchildren has always been big business

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:12:35 2018 No.10905504 >>10905379 >Simon Pegg plays the main character in the inevitable movie adaptation. You should make this part of the book as a sort of meta commentary.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:13:18 2018 No.10905506 >>10905496 Um no I think they're categorically distinct pleasures, retard

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:15:53 2018 No.10905513 >>10905307 Is this deliberate parody? Surely people can't be this much of a soyboy by accident?

Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:16:05 2018 No.10905514

>>10905445
>>10905449
No one is saying there's something inherently wrong with enjoying comic books or blockbusters. The problem is the media have turned this meaningless entertainment into an identity. It's all a sinister marketing scheme and many of the people who fall for it end up leading meaningless lives.
>>10905500
The key difference is modern geek culture completely consumes people.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:16:14 2018 No.10905515 >>10905497 What do you think they should have to "full their hole" them?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:16:30 2018 No.10905516 >>10905506 Why? There's almost no difference between Marvel movies and Homer works

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>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:18:32 2018 No.10905523 >>10905515 No one ultimately has to do anything. I just attack them because I think that their unbridled support of comic book film is ruining popular cinema, which is a passion of mine.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:21:22 2018 No.10905534 >>10905514 >The key difference is modern geek culture completely consumes people. i guess u never met a hardcore sportsfan before

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:22:26 2018 No.10905537 >>10905523 >popular cinema is a passion of mine why do i bother reading a board filled with the weakest bait

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:22:51 2018 No.10905539 >>10905534 Difference between sports fans and Capeshit consumers are that Capeshit consumers have zero integrity or personality of their own since they are warped up in letting companies make decisions for them when it comes to media.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:25:31 2018 No.10905548 >>10905392 I have not seen said greentext. Where may I find it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:25:46 2018 No.10905549 >>10905537 Literally nothing inherently wrong with popular cinema. They're not superior to art film, but they do serve a particular purpose given that the scale they're capable of can't be achieved by any other sort of film

Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:28:18 2018 No.10905556

>>10905516
Just because their place in culture is similar does not mean there is no difference. That capeshit has entered such a prominent place in our culture is why it deserves so much disdain. Marvel movies lack artistry, lack substance, and lack meaning. It's a hostile take over of our mythos by literal plastic mongers.

Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:31:06 2018 No.10905564

>>10905539
sports fans are fans of corporate entities, the yankees today are completely different personnel than the yankees of twenty years ago, but people are still hardcore "yankees fans" etc. they're basically loyal to a logo, if you think sportsfans are not deplorable i urge you to go to some sportsfan bullshit, its just as lame as any anime or comic book convention, capeshit is just a way to sell merchandise to people too unathletic to get hooked on sports consumption

Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:42:44 2018 No.10905601

>>10905548
Never knew there was a greentext, but Pegg has been pretty vocal about his disdain for "nerd culture". Basically he rightly calls it out as a a consumerist cash grab which marketing moguls have taken advantage of to make big bucks. Ironic, then, that he ran to RP1 when Spielberg threw money his way.

Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:44:19 2018 No.10905607

>>10905564
There's a very big difference. Sports organizations bring a sense of community to their cities, and provide an economic locus of activity. They draw in tourists, and help establish a city as "legitimate". Additionally, they don't change all at once. This means, despite having none of the same personnel, there is still often a central attitude or culture or ethos that surrounds the team over time. The organization, and more importantly the fan base which drives it, maintain a continuous sense of character. Anime and comic book fandoms are a bastardization of this tribal derivative. They serve no function whatsoever. The only worth they have is in preserving and sharing creative work, which of course can only be valuable to the extent the creative work is valuable. Since most of it is vapid trash or childish fantasy, there is little good that comes out of it. To really see the difference, compare the models--geekdoms are sustained by the whales, they're propped up by the hardcore fan who spends an inordinate amount of money on product that no one else cares about, whereas sports teams, while having plenty of whales, rely on broad appeal. It is more important for the cubs to sell a hat to thousands of people, then to sell an entire wardrobe and lifestyle to a few hardcore fans. One relies on childish consumption habits, and the other relies on trivial enthusiasm.

Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:44:21 2018 No.10905608

>>10905564
>sports fans are fans of corporate entities
Only in pro sports. College sports has at least some modicum of integrity left, though it too has become a vehicle for rampant consumerism. At least with college sports there's actual history, rivalries, traditions, and school pride being played for.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:47:17 2018 No.10905618 >>10905548 >>10905601 http://simonpegg.net/2015/05/19/big-mouth-strikes-again/

Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:53:45 2018 No.10905639

>>10905601
It's possible there's something subversive about the movie then. Spielberg has made some remarks where he suggests that Hollywood needs to start making original movies again, stop just playing on everyone's nostalgia, and what not, right before selling RP1. A big issue of movie making is that it's steered by the people with money, not the people with the skills. Pegg's career is built off "nerd-dom". He can be mad at how hollywood studios are treating the things he loves, but he's not been able to find cross-over success in another genre. His only way of changing things is by making the money now, continuing to get bigger and bigger roles, and then using his money and influence to change what happens next. It's also a thing, where you don't exactly want to turn down Spielberg. He's one of the true kings of hollywood. The way he's been speaking, maybe this is his way of ending the game. Cline may be clueless, but Spielberg is not. Either he's completely cynical, or he's got something up his sleeve.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 12:59:40 2018 No.10905653 >>10905379 >SOYBMISSION

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 13:37:59 2018 No.10905775 >>10905379 no don't. My life isn't ready for an biography.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 14:10:21 2018 No.10905888 File: 71 KB, 860x715, applyyourself.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10905379 >real religion

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 15:53:26 2018 No.10906374 >>10905888 A religion can be real but untrue.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 15:56:42 2018 No.10906392 >>10905639 Steven Spielberg is a pedophile who launders drug money

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 15:57:58 2018 No.10906401 >>10906374 Where do you draw the line? Age? Number of stories? Number of worshipers? At what point does something stop being "pop culture" and become real culture? Is there any argument here beyond appeal to antiquity?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 16:00:15 2018 No.10906405 >>10906401 How many funko pops do you own?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 16:02:57 2018 No.10906419 >>10905307 Trailer reactions on YouTube are nothing but pure validation, both for the uploader and the viewer.

Anonymous Tue Mar 27 16:11:26 2018 No.10906462

>>10906401
>At what point does something stop being "pop culture" and become real culture?
You're doing a sleight of hand there, I was talking about real religion, not real culture.

Real religion is that which is actually regarded as religion rather than something that somewhat resembles it.

Anonymous Tue Mar 27 16:12:09 2018 No.10906464

>>10906419
80% of media discussion is just people trying to impress others with their opinions, in the hopes it will get them excepted. Nobody is completely exempt from this, it just seems so much worse when you can actually see the desperation in their eyes.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 16:14:29 2018 No.10906475 >>10906401 Real religion: Catholicism Rest: untrue Easy as that.

Anonymous Tue Mar 27 16:16:31 2018 No.10906483

>>10906405
I'm not saying it's a good thing mate.
>>10906462
Even then, that's a hard line to draw. Is Mormonism a real religion? It's a recent phenomenon, we have plenty of accounts of its formation. If it's real because of its connection to Christianity does this validate every prophet who uses the bible as a reference?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 16:25:41 2018 No.10906517 File: 176 KB, 1027x1280, 1520943799859.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10905401 This so much

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 16:35:36 2018 No.10906563 >>10906483 Are you deliberately missing the point? That anon was comparing religion to something like Marvel comics or Harry Potter.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 17:11:04 2018 No.10906732 >>10906475 Top kek

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 20:01:08 2018 No.10907483 File: 28 KB, 318x500, 9780449204115-us.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10905488

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 20:43:05 2018 No.10907666 >>10905324 Happiness is for children and older people. Adults should suffer and meditate about the weight of life.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 20:47:42 2018 No.10907685 File: 308 KB, 480x270, 1522002303351.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10907666 Of course Satan would say that

Anonymous Tue Mar 27 21:22:53 2018 No.10907842

This thread needs more reading suggestions. How about:

I am Providence by Nick Mamatas
Jpod by Douglas Coupland
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
Rapture of the Nerds by Doctorow and Stross
Any of Doctorow's many YA novels
You by Austin Grossman
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson has some good sections on the topic

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 21:26:49 2018 No.10907860 >>10907685 Oh, I didn't notice. The amount of times I've gotten 666 trips is insanely high. I'm a Christian so I don't know how to feel about it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 21:29:56 2018 No.10907873 File: 823 KB, 1060x754, 659445634.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10905307 Some OC

Anonymous Tue Mar 27 22:18:06 2018 No.10908079

>>10905607
Comic book conventions do all of those things. Even Free Comic Book Day events, if you've been unfortunate enough to ever witness one, have people lining up down the street. People travel, book hotel rooms, spend boat loads of money to congregate at these events. There is a community to it.

Actually, anime expos are funny. Someone should take pics of crowds and play a guess if it's a Pride or an Anime event type game.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 22:39:12 2018 No.10908165 >>10905392 Because people know him for geek shit and it's an easy paycheck

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 22:54:56 2018 No.10908224 >>10905307 The Culture Industry

Anonymous Tue Mar 27 23:07:00 2018 No.10908283

>>10905324
>Maters of Doom
The story about Carmack breaking into his school with thermite, then telling the juvy officer he would do it again was great. Same with him simply ending their multi year D&D campaign after Romero got greedy and ended the world chasing some magical sword..
That whole book is fascinating. Definitely more of a biography about a collection of people, and the tech and business changes they started rather than video games

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 23:21:42 2018 No.10908331 >>10905439 No one has seriously beleived in religion for decades, including everyone on this board. And philosophy has never been something the majority partook in.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 27 23:58:13 2018 No.10908470 >>10905379 That sounds good but choose another name that doesn't reek of /pol/.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 00:15:39 2018 No.10908520 >>10905324 Not like that, no.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 01:21:54 2018 No.10908716 >>10908283 Childhood is looking up to John Romero Adulthood is realizing John Carmack is the actual cool guy of the group

Anonymous Wed Mar 28 01:33:23 2018 No.10908745
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>>10905307
Unironically, the Frankfurt School. Yes, they're Jewish, yes, they're Marxists, but they have insightful criticisms of modern hyper-consumerism and the commodification of art.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 01:35:49 2018 No.10908757 >>10908470 What about Growing Down? I could add in some stuff about a cultural revolution happening where people literally go to war over defending their capeshit brands. I feel like this should be the next /lit/ writing project.

Anonymous Wed Mar 28 01:36:21 2018 No.10908759

>>10905639
>It's possible there's something subversive about the movie then. Spielberg has made some remarks where he suggests that Hollywood needs to start making original movies again, stop just playing on everyone's nostalgia, and what not, right before selling RP1.

That's the joke.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 01:41:38 2018 No.10908780 >>10905424 >all weebs are geeks you are retarded

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 01:42:42 2018 No.10908783 >>10905439 >philosophy and religion your trying too hard to fit in

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 01:45:43 2018 No.10908793 >>10908716 I love Carmack.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 01:46:22 2018 No.10908798 >>10905504 Charlie Kaufman detected

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 01:48:30 2018 No.10908803 >>10908780 I never said that. Just a geek that happens to be a weeb too.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 02:25:57 2018 No.10908911 >>10907666 The day that Satan is the voice of reason.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 02:46:23 2018 No.10908950 >>10905307 >What are some books about geek culture? that would require that geeks have culture what they have is memes and in that vein, >>10905345 RPO is the meme book

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 02:49:50 2018 No.10908958 >>10906374 >>10906401 they take the Jordan Peterson view on religion. cain and abel is a true story because it reveals that murders happen

Anonymous Wed Mar 28 02:51:03 2018 No.10908962

>>10905379
>>10908757
>people literally go to war over defending their capeshit brands
kek. I would unironically buy such a book if written seriously. I can actually picture a soyboy army marching with a 300 lb neckbeard holding a flag with the logo of his favorite franchise. The anti pop culture movement could be a conglomeration of /pol/ and /leftypol/ types who hunt down Hollywood and gaming executives and dragging out from their homes in the middle of the night.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 02:52:52 2018 No.10908963 >>10908962 geeks don't behave this way geekls who go to comic con behave this way

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 03:04:21 2018 No.10908986 >>10905429 Riley unjusted himself, we're waiting for him to get that Scottish cocksucker!

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 03:11:27 2018 No.10909004 >>10905324 >What have you never been excited before? About a trailer for an extended toy commercial? Can't say I have, side effects of testosterone you see

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 03:25:36 2018 No.10909033 >>10905379 keep us updated on your progree

Anonymous Wed Mar 28 03:34:33 2018 No.10909052

>>10905402
It is because becoming part of the culture is nothing more than a trend. Those that participate in it only do so for some sort of pathetic validation by lord knows who. Their enjoyment and claims of being a fan are just superficial. When you get down to it, it's nothing more than a front. A front to make up their lack of a personality or any other interesting traits.

Anonymous Wed Mar 28 03:34:47 2018 No.10909053

>Disney has managed to make a generation of intellectually defective effeminate men grow emotionally attached to some bland, dull, artless franchise of grown up dudes dressing up as comic characters and fighting other sunday morning cartoon characters
Legit evil but brilliant nonetheless

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 12:24:01 2018 No.10910341 >>10905407

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 12:25:19 2018 No.10910348 >>10905324 >he's just reacting to trailer Why do people even watch these videos? Why do people care about some literary whos reaction to trailer

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 12:26:22 2018 No.10910356 >>10909053 pop culture has literally always been like this

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 12:29:09 2018 No.10910364 >>10910356 Look at the highest grossing movies of any given year in the 70s. They weren't nearly as infantile

Anonymous Wed Mar 28 12:42:55 2018 No.10910418
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>>10905402
it is not "culture" so much that capitalism is a "culture". without going into quasi-religious comparison such as >>10905439 but entertainment and virtue filled heroes are what people are going to idolize of what makes a strong person. But they never explore the grey areas of morality, because for the most part like villains and heroes., its black and white and easy to stand on the same side as those who are championed.

But geek culture isn't so much predicated on just watching or reading comics and such, its being spurned as "LE SCIENCE IS EPIC XDDD" meanwhile 90% of them are scientifically illiterate and industrial capitalism encourages this overconsumption of Netflix originals, Marvel and Disney films coming out every week and a compulsion to keep buying in order to stay up to date.

I know several friends who have almost gone bankrupt because of the over excessive consumption of exclusive video game bundles, movie tickets, a litany of merchandise and other accouterments that eclipse any semblance of personality. You can enjoy all those things, and still be a functional human but the "culture" rests on constant information constant watching without any real though

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 28 12:53:23 2018 No.10910457 >>10910356 Like a cult? No, it didn't

Anonymous Wed Mar 28 13:06:45 2018 No.10910496
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>>10910356
adolescent culture didn't exist until the middle class was invented, and that was less that 100 years ago, so if by always you mean the last 50 years, maybe and even then that's debatable

what you have now arguably is adolescent culture becoming all culture and replacing any sort of "adult" lifestyle

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