On: Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture

[jacobolus]

It’s unsurprising (and probably inevitable) that counter-cultural social clubs tend to attract nonconformists.

[zeth___ → jacobolus]

There isn't a culture to be cultured against any more. This isn't 1960 where there is one medium that connects 75%+ of people. What you have now are a lot of different cultures.

[emodendroket → zeth___]

That's definitely not true. Travel to some country on the other side of the world and you can appreciate for yourself that, subcultures aside, there is a large body of shared cultural beliefs and practices that most of us more or less share.

[zeth___ → emodendroket]

Including the counter cultures.

I've yet to meet genuine American socialists, even your hard communists sound like Christian Democrats with some odd ideas of race thrown in.

[emodendroket → zeth___]

I don't know if I'd say that, but the persistent idea that we're all charting a unique ideological course from first principles is, I think, somewhat characteristic.

[lactau → zeth___]

>This isn't 1960 where there is one medium that connects 75%+ of people.

Was it ever like that though? Even in 1960?