alt Hacker News"Geeks, MOPs and Psychopaths"¹ is a good article about this, most importantly because it gives a grippy name to the phenomenon.
"Geeks, MOPs and Psychopaths"¹ is a good article about this, most importantly because it gives a grippy name to the phenomenon.
My mind jumped here too.
From the article:
>Subcultures were the main creative cultural force from roughly 1975 to 2000, when they stopped working. Why?
>One reason—among several—is that as soon as subcultures start getting really interesting, they get invaded by muggles, who ruin them.
>The muggles who invade and ruin subcultures come in two distinct flavors, mops and sociopaths, playing very different roles.