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Subculture
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Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate. Subculture values will proliferate to such a bewildering extent that a whole new class of professionals will arise to control them. Such a Transmutation Technology will deal in fashions, in ways of being. Lifestyle consultants will become the new priests of our civilizations. They will be the new magicians.
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― Liber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
― Liber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
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The modern rockabilly rebel is inevitably facing a tension between succumbing to the pull of the past—a kind of remembering—and a forgetting that the integrity of any embrace of the past is challenged as contrivance and dissimulation by the near-universal availability of the once-local, once-rebellious, and once-novel style.
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― Performance Anxiety in Media Culture: The Trauma of Appearance and the Drama of Disappearance
― Performance Anxiety in Media Culture: The Trauma of Appearance and the Drama of Disappearance
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punk, post-punk, and more music based books
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