Currently finishing up the last of my thank you cards from the holiday season. (I'm so behind this year!) I doubt thank you cards will be mailed in about ten years.
The whole counterculture thing has changed because of what mass media became. We still have those people, but now they have derogatory labels and exist as fringe communities on the internet that get rather large. I feel like the closest thing we have now is hipsters, the punk/goth/emo types don't exist near as much as they used to.
It was a lot easier to be isolated when you were actually socially isolated.
The whole counterculture thing has changed because of what mass media became. We still have those people, but now they have derogatory labels and exist as fringe communities on the internet that get rather large. I feel like the closest thing we have now is hipsters, the punk/goth/emo types don't exist near as much as they used to.
It was a lot easier to be isolated when you were actually socially isolated.
Anti-commercialist art.
Kids don't want to create art/music/video as a rejection of society or as simple anti-social "fuck you" they want to be "accepted" and "encouraged". They want their works to be adopted by commercial culture. Also the idea of just creating something raw and unpolished for the sake of it befuddles kids who have the digital tools necessary to polish and homogenize everyone's voice.
Irreverent Social interaction. You can't just go up to your friends now and be like "hey faggot" or any other slur you want, you can't challenge your 6th grade best friend to grab some chick's ass at recess, kids can't go around egging houses or leaving burning bags of dog shit on porches and ringing the bell.