antipopper

The other day I was introduced to some people with whom I expected to have little in common, and yet we quickly established that we were all Firefly fans. It was so weirdly sudden, and almost unspoken! The exponential dance of subtle cues that led to this understanding made me think about drug deals, or picking someone up at a beat, or other forms of negotiation that appear to lie outside declarative, transmissive models of rational communication. Which leads to this thought: the way these kinds of “subcultural social skills” exist outside the official domain of “the political” is very interesting.

[ tags: politics, firefly, subculture ]