![]() Likewise, you are not a unique, special snowflake of special unique specialness just because you perform unimaginative, formulaic public displays of obscenity. The neoliberal press has laid the propaganda on thick (especially recently for “Pride Month”), so this bears repeating: being LGTBQ4GF150+++© or whatever doesn’t make anyone or anything special. Rule of thumb: if you have a NIKE© promotion deal of any variety, you’re not “counterculture” you’re not “subverting” the mainstream (you are the mainstream) you’re not a “rebel.” “Counterculture” would be challenging NIKE©’s Indonesian sweatshops and the neoliberal so-called “free trade” trade deals like NAFTA that enable them. It’s so non-edgy to be gender non-conforming in the modern era, in fact, that the only way to generate controversy (and, as a result, desperately needed publicity) for yourself is to continually up the ante. ![]() ![]() In the same way, NIKE© shoe gimmicks (retailing for $1,018), Satan-themed music videos and gay make-out sessions at award shows don’t make one a cutting-edge artist – at least not in America, not in 2021.Ĭultures are not static they have trajectories. As Tyler Durden, one-half of Fight Club’s protagonist’s split personality, profoundly (albeit crassly) noted, “ sticking feathers in your butt does not make you a chicken.”
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