[lbo-talk] over-the-counter-culture [was: Boom Box Aggression

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

It is difficult to have a reasoned discussion with the latter-days
counter-culture crowd that believes that shouting swear words loudly
trump all arguments.  

But what is really pathetic about that crowd, though, is that all their
rebel posturing notwithstanding, they fail to realize that their
"counter-culture" is in fact an over-the-counter-culture, a sort of
mass-marketed McCulture, McMusic, McShowbiz - where the production of
cultural contents has been finally Taylorized and relegated to the
semiskilled disc-flippers, computerized sound assembly line workers, and
marketers pushing that product to kids with little or no taste, while
the record company owners reap most of the profits.

Some "counter culture" indeed.  It looks suspiciously like the
Pepsi-generation with more shocking window dressing.

Wojtek