The Real Counter Culture

Are you fighting the man? Do you work to subvert the status quo of big business consumer culture? Is Che Guevara on your t-shirt?
You are not unique. You are not special. You are part of the machine.
Being “counterculture”, being “subversive” is part of the very culture today. Want to burn developments and save rainforests? Some marketing executive has an ad campaign, for an SUV, tailored just for you. Do you dreadlock your hair, never shave your pits (or your bush), and pay good greenback dollars to idolize communist revolutionaries on your clothes? You’re not just a market demographic, you’re such yesterdays news that they teach courses about you to marketers in training - Corporate prints money off you. Refuse to eat meat, and throw pigs blood on beef growers at national agriculture symposiums? McDonalds introduced a veggie burger just for you!
What once was revolutionary, counter to the culture, has been co-opted by that very culture. The movements, the revolutions, didn’t win – They were bought out. The culture made enough appeals to them, the subtle creeping sneaking kind, and they let themselves out to sea, just another part of the great teaming, screaming, mass. Grex Venalum.
The old revolutions are the masks the same old devils wear, while they rape our children. And the old revolutionaries? Those who aren’t wearing the masks are still sewing them. The revolutions are all parts of the machine.
Some of us however, we aren’t that. We aren’t anything.
We work hard, we have personal convictions based on personal search, and are lucky if we ever find a single soul who is like-minded. We don’t need a movement.
We are warriors, doctors, dry cleaners, ditch diggers, software designers, mechanical engineers, fathers, mothers, daughters, sons.
We aren’t pacific, but we are not predators. We simply believe in standing strongly on our own two feet and will do what it takes to do so. Sometimes with glee and zest, simply because we believe in the necessity of it. We carry guns. We love puppies. These are not contradictions. We are well read, well practiced in, can speak intelligently on and apply lessons from, economics, engineering, home-ec., military science, medicine, agriculture, biology, history, chemistry, and philosophy. We know how to love, in the truly deep way that comes from knowing the antithesis there of, and their symbiosis.
Our movement isn’t a cause, and our cause isn’t a movement. We live to live, and we like it this way. We believe in what we can carve out with our own two hands, and everything else we accept because we know, in the end all things come into their own undoing. And we’re waiting for that, because we know we’ll come out on the other side just fine.

The rest of you are just fakes.