{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "In that moment, I felt like a time traveler from 1991, a sad remnant of the pre-Internet days, when wearing Doc Martens with the...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/2603456282/", "html": "In that moment, I felt like a time traveler from 1991, a sad remnant of the pre-Internet days, when wearing Doc Martens with the laces undone and dumping Manic Panic in your hair and reading controversial novels was a way of distancing yourself from everything that was dull and normal about society. I realized that my revolution was long over \u2026 not because we\u2019d lost, but because we\u2019d won. We\u2019d remade the world in our image, and the world didn\u2019t care about us anymore. My teenage fantasy of a world connected by global networks and controlled by badass nerds, a world where subcultures and musical forms and narratives rise and fall quicker than the tides, has become the reality \u2026 and, as it always is, it\u2019s so much less interesting than I imagined it to be.
\nJoshua Ellis - Children by the Millions Wait for Alex Chilton"}