\nhttps://twitter.com/TheFaction1776/status/1085293090288558081
At this distance all the street art I hear about in Shepard Fairey\u2019s old Hollywood stomping grounds these days is right-wing, either The Faction or SABO.
(Hollywood the neighborhood hasn\u2019t equaled \u201cHollywood\u201d the industry since the 1940s)
There is a tradition of Gen X West Coast counter/subcultural right-cynicism though, expressed through humor and cartooning \u2013 Jim Goad and Nick \u201cA. Wyatt Mann\u201d Bougas at Answer Me!, Suck.com (large portions of which was absorbed by Reason magazine), Peter Bagge and Hate, John Swartzwelter writing for Army Man and The Simpsons
Really it was part of the same cultural ecosystem as Fairey and Adbusters, honestly as Spy and Vice and Bloom County and Life In Hell and Calvin & Hobbes tbh, even Beavis & Butthead/Daria, a Gen X disillusionment with/loathing of the normie world
But then that became the culture and got its edges softened and everyone forgot how to operate as a counterculture
(I was lately like \u201cwow, Hard Times and Reductress AND Babylon Bee are all really good rn, why is all the good satire subculture-specific?\u201d Then I realized The Onion\u2019s \u201covereducated college town slacker with Thoughts about pop culture\u201d was subculture at debut)
But now we\u2019re cycling back out and it\u2019s been rediscovered
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