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

John Adams jadams01 at sprynet.com
Thu Feb 26 07:17:27 PST 2004


On Thursday, February 26, 2004, at 10:03 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


> 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.

It is equally difficult when other participants believe that a shouted swear word disqualifies a reasoned argument.


> 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

We're talking about the Texaco Metropolitan Opera here, right?


> - where the production of
> cultural contents has been finally Taylorized and relegated to the
> semiskilled disc-flippers, computerized sound assembly line workers,

If you mean what I think you mean, your ignorance is astounding.


> and
> marketers pushing that product to kids with little or no taste, while
> the record company owners reap most of the profits.

In what cultural business is this not all too often true?


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

Yeah, I spent ten, fifteen years rabble-rousing with music--I can't count how much cash money it cost me, let alone the opportunities I passed up--and getting systematically smashed down by right-wing pushers of KKKlassical music--NPR uber alles!--because I was trying to join the Pepsi generation.

I got your reasoned discourse right here,

John A



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