"The normal strategies you have against this won’t work. They didn’t take away the thing, they built an awful cancerous version of it that outcompetes yours." "The machine takes your culture and sells a shitty version of it back to you."

There is one position that will never be absorbed anywhere in the West: the hatred of Boethians. If I were to create a niche counterculture I would make the hatred of Boethians the entry ticket as a vital ingredient to establish authentic counterculture. You can't get more anti-establishment, and it's the only anti-establishment move that still works.