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offline noseburger on 2008-05-15 12:15 [#02206760]
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is counter culture counterproductive to trying to change
the world? i'm beginning to think it is. i mean, for a
start, if you want people to take you seriously, you have to
dress smart and wash.

discuss.

a friend of mine went to an anarchist bookfair a while back,
and unsuprisingly, he said it was a shambles, that no one
really knew what was going on, or what the point really was.
not really going rock the foundations now, is it? in town at
the weekends theres always animal rights protesters on a
stall, and half of me thinks i want to go and check it out
and support a good cause and then half of me thinks 'you
look like rejects from the raggy dolls, and you're going to
waste my time'

i read this, and it got me thinking. some of it
is a bit iffy, but some good points are made;

Rebellion is a very good way of setting yourself apart
from the masses, whether it's by being cooler or morally
superior or just better informed than other people. It's a
search for prestige in the most basic sense…. You can
see the almost unassailable sense of superiority that's
associated with the vegan, organic-vegetable-shopping,
back-to-the-land, Guatemala-handcraft-wearing,
anti-globalization activists. They clearly think that
they're better than the people who do not share their system
of values. So, because other people don't like being
characterized as brainwashed cogs, they wind up promoting
competitive consumption.."



 

offline ecnadniarb on 2008-05-15 12:19 [#02206763]
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blah blah blah blah
Try to think of something productive instead of dwelling on
mid-pubescent irrelevancies.


 

offline noseburger on 2008-05-15 12:21 [#02206768]
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something productive like you're doing you mean?


 

offline PORICK from fucking IRELAND on 2008-05-15 12:22 [#02206769]
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working 9 to 5, there's nothing more productive or admirable


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2008-05-15 12:23 [#02206770]
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oh, um, very good, give yourself a pat on the back and make
sure your fucking school work is finished.


 

offline noseburger on 2008-05-15 12:24 [#02206771]
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grow up.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2008-05-15 12:25 [#02206773]
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anarchist bookfair


 

offline noseburger on 2008-05-15 12:26 [#02206774]
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what about it?


 

offline J198 from Maastricht (Netherlands, The) on 2008-05-15 12:28 [#02206775]
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counter culture run by smart and decent people



 

offline ecnadniarb on 2008-05-15 12:29 [#02206776]
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anarchist


 

offline noseburger on 2008-05-15 12:32 [#02206777]
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we cant all be as cool as you


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2008-05-15 12:33 [#02206779]
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I mean if it was an arachnist bookfair ran by spiders it
would be good. Especially if one of the books was called

"Anarchist arachnids depose the British government."


 

offline J198 from Maastricht (Netherlands, The) on 2008-05-15 12:33 [#02206780]
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when i grow up i want to become an anarchist.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2008-05-15 12:34 [#02206781]
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arachnid.


 

offline glasse from Harrisburg (United States) on 2008-05-15 12:38 [#02206782]
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well if you actually want to be an activist and have people
listen to you, yea you have to be on and know what you are
talking about. I mean, if you are lobbying for anarchy you
could get away w piercings, tattoos and what not. our
society is liberal enough now for those kind of goings on.
you can dress business-rebel.

but if you are just gonna share this shit in a coffee house
with your peers than it doesn't really matter, although they
probably want you to be showered also.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2008-05-15 12:40 [#02206785]
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what if your peers are arachnids. arachnids don't shower
(apart from gay ones)


 

offline glasse from Harrisburg (United States) on 2008-05-15 12:46 [#02206786]
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see that part in your avatar getting down toward the
bottom.

arachnids like to take it there, sometimes in the shower.
and that thong would be way too thick for them they need to
see the rim.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2008-05-15 12:49 [#02206791]
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h6rny.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2008-05-15 12:57 [#02206796]
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Haha, that link up there.. that's awful!

Right-wing people are always trying to make it look like
everyone's really right wing at bottom.

Conservative think-tanks are filled with jellyfish.


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2008-05-15 12:57 [#02206797]
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This thread is a lil messy. I'm not sure what point to make
here. But I hate this shit in the UK. I swear that 90% of
people dont have thier own ideas on a subject but rather
associate themselves with opinions that make them seem
smarter/fashionably different. It's all fucking image and no
discussion. People go on about the UK government being shit,
and i always ask them if theres that many places that are so
much better. Their answer is rubbish cos they really dont
know anything about the subject, but it's just cool to hate
the government cos it's the only thing that turns them from
middleclass bedroom masturbator to anti establishment mega
rebel. I dunno, i'm just cross again


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2008-05-15 13:00 [#02206798]
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noseburger = iiiiiiiiiiiiiii = i_x_ten

Boring twat.


 

offline noseburger on 2008-05-15 13:08 [#02206804]
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that article is crummy in places i know. i've heard that
rhetoric about all really being right wing often.
why do you think its such a universal theme?


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2008-05-15 13:15 [#02206814]
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Many right-wing parties are populist parties, so they're
just trying to make it seem like everyone agrees with them.
They do this by pretending they have the core values,
and by hypnosis (saying stuff no-one can disagree with).


 

offline wimp on 2008-05-15 13:16 [#02206816]
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noseburger, saying that it's wrong or counterproductive to
take pride in thoughtfulness...

arthur magazine

grinding

sociological images


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2008-05-15 13:36 [#02206828]
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when i grow up i want to be an antichrist


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2008-05-15 13:57 [#02206846]
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It's so irrelevant.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2008-05-15 13:58 [#02206847]
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Hahaa, that sociological images thing has to be a
joke?!


 

offline gingaling from Scamworth (Burkina Faso) on 2008-05-15 14:05 [#02206856]
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fuck it all. fuck anarchists, fuck animal rights, fuck
animal rights protesters, fuck hippies, fuck organic, and
fuck bussiness men too.

i read a bit of this thread and got bored, plus looking at
that fat goth makes me too horny so fuck her too.

fuck fuck fuck


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2008-05-15 14:07 [#02206860]
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What's the secret behind your peppy upbeatness?


 

offline gingaling from Scamworth (Burkina Faso) on 2008-05-15 14:08 [#02206862]
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mine?


 

offline BoxBob-K23 from Finland on 2008-05-16 05:25 [#02207066]
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this is some sort of counter-counter-counter-cultural circle
jerk here, perfectly fun and pointless


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2008-05-16 06:26 [#02207075]
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Noseburger is correct. The value system is the problem -
forcing everybody to fit into a model. Destroying the value
system and replacing it with another value system sends you
back to square one. What's the end result? One group has got
their way over another group and is now in a position to
sieze power and manipulate, usually at the expense of
innocent people's lives - nothing profound has changed at
the end of it. Soon more anarchists will arise to replace
the anarchists who have become the norm. It's just silly
little people, with silly little lives trying to exercise
their self-importance - in reality they're no more important
than the mosquitoes sucking their blood.


 

offline vlari from beyond the valley of the LOLs on 2008-05-16 08:19 [#02207084]
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i'm so over the counter culture


 

offline glasse from Harrisburg (United States) on 2008-05-16 08:41 [#02207087]
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give them some advice on how the oldsters stay hip


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2008-05-16 08:57 [#02207090]
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On a side note this book is nice to sit and flick
through on a drizzly afternoon when you're not out fighting
for whatever the things are that you people fight for.


 


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