Counter-culture becomes culture, which becomes fuel for the next counter-culture.
But the lesson is not that people inevitably sell out or that authenticity inevitably decays. It’s that there is no such thing as authenticity; it’s all social status games.
https://youarenotsosmart.com/2012/10/08/yanss-podcast-episode-five/
(And if you read that and think “pfft, not me — I don’t play social status games”… congratulations, that’s you playing the social status game.)
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