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Originally Posted by The Batlord
I read an article a little while back that touched on this. Basically that this generation doesn't really have much to rebel against: our parents and grandparents are former hippies -- or at least don't call us ***gots when we grow out our hair -- we have more technology and consumer products to keep us from concentrating on railing against a system that's more uninspiring than it is repressive, the crazy decades -- from the Depression, to WWII, to Civil Rights and the hippy counterculture, to Vietnam, and all through the Cold War -- are kind of over and our culture is just kind of coasting along on a sea of laziness and indifference.
And so you have kids who are just as happy listening to Led Zeppelin as Lil' Wayne, cause it's not like their parents are these ogres who need to be vilified. TBH, our parents are boring in their casual liberalness. So why not listen to AC/DC and rediscover post-punk?
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I read an article recently on the death of youth sub cultures, and how the youth of today, don't really coalesce into uniformed counterculture groups anymore. (rockers, homies, hippies, punks ect)
Your right in that the casual liberalness of parents probably makes it hard for kids to rebel today "Oh you want to be a gangster Jimmy, well ok, just remember that dinner is at 7" lol.
That and we live in a culturally liberal welfare state, it's people who are on the right of the spectrum that are on the fringe now, so unless your going to become some hardcore ultranationalist, and we all know how that ended last time around, it's kind of hard to rebel.
I also think one of the main driving factors is the decline of the music industry with the internet and free downloading, record companies don't have the power and influence they once had culturally, so there is less to rally against.
At the end of the day, the end of youth subcultures isn't a bad thing, it was just a historical phenomenon that students will read in history books a hundred years from now.