RU Sirius Interviewed on HuffPost

[thebonobo]

Paul Krassner interrogates Sirius, who says some cool stuff about counterculture, politics, and lots of other topics.

Today, we have a zilllion media channels vying for people's attention--pushing attention in millions of different directions. Everything is distributed and diffused and confused. And then, extreme types of dress and irreverence are mainstream." In fact, we can question whether a mainstream or a counterculture really exists any more. Our cultures today are cauldrons of confusion and contradiction. Rather than a counterculture, you have these sorts of counter-subcultures. Cultures that evolve out of punk, raves, riot grrls, and body mod freaks. And it gets pretty tribal--the eco-anarchist may have a war with the techno-anarchists. However, the Bush Administration has been so distressing that people seem to be setting aside some of their differences. Increasingly, subculture as a source of an identity that needs to be exclusive to remain hip is giving way to a desire among lots of different people to preserve the right to non-conform and dissent.

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[cRitter]

Counterculture is a commodity with a price tag that offers a smaller margin of profit than mainstream production.