<story><title>Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life</title><url>https://www.epsilontheory.com/25-anti-mimetic-tactics-for-living-a-counter-cultural-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>&amp;quot;To learn more about [anti-memetic counter-culture] my website and be notified when we release new content sign up here.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;OK.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m going with Mark Fisher on this one. This is absolutely generic and unoriginal cut-and-paste Californian lifestyle advice trying to package itself as something deeper - which is something generic and unoriginal Californian lifestyle advice &lt;i&gt;always&lt;/i&gt; does, as part of its own branding™.&lt;p&gt;But it does raise the question: what would a genuine online counter-culture look like?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure going to museums and restaurants and playing golf at off-peak times wouldn&amp;#x27;t be part of it.&lt;p&gt;But what would?</text></item><item><author>eat_veggies</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s hilarious that this is standard self-help advice designed to make you a better worker, packaged up as something subversive or &amp;quot;anti-mimetic.&amp;quot; I am reminded of Mark Fisher:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Witness, for instance, the establishment of settled &amp;#x27;alternative&amp;#x27; or &amp;#x27;independent&amp;#x27; cultural zones, which endlessly repeat older gestures of rebellion and contestation as if for the first time. &amp;#x27;Alternative&amp;#x27; and &amp;#x27;independent&amp;#x27; don&amp;#x27;t designate something outside mainstream culture; rather, they are styles, in fact &lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; dominant styles, within the mainstream.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>liaukovv</author><text>Something like 4chan in the past</text></comment>
<story><title>Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life</title><url>https://www.epsilontheory.com/25-anti-mimetic-tactics-for-living-a-counter-cultural-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>&amp;quot;To learn more about [anti-memetic counter-culture] my website and be notified when we release new content sign up here.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;OK.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m going with Mark Fisher on this one. This is absolutely generic and unoriginal cut-and-paste Californian lifestyle advice trying to package itself as something deeper - which is something generic and unoriginal Californian lifestyle advice &lt;i&gt;always&lt;/i&gt; does, as part of its own branding™.&lt;p&gt;But it does raise the question: what would a genuine online counter-culture look like?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure going to museums and restaurants and playing golf at off-peak times wouldn&amp;#x27;t be part of it.&lt;p&gt;But what would?</text></item><item><author>eat_veggies</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s hilarious that this is standard self-help advice designed to make you a better worker, packaged up as something subversive or &amp;quot;anti-mimetic.&amp;quot; I am reminded of Mark Fisher:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Witness, for instance, the establishment of settled &amp;#x27;alternative&amp;#x27; or &amp;#x27;independent&amp;#x27; cultural zones, which endlessly repeat older gestures of rebellion and contestation as if for the first time. &amp;#x27;Alternative&amp;#x27; and &amp;#x27;independent&amp;#x27; don&amp;#x27;t designate something outside mainstream culture; rather, they are styles, in fact &lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; dominant styles, within the mainstream.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>turminal</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure going to museums and restaurants and playing golf at off-peak times wouldn&amp;#x27;t be part of it.&lt;p&gt;Why not?</text></comment>