Then I partial agree with you on that… I just think it’s not just the technology driving cultural creations/ideas. Sometimes it’s the other way round.
Maybe… I think the future is rarely predicted and is more shaped by the culture we used to live in in the past. Continuum.
Indeed! Our brains are not great for accurately reconstructing the past, I’m afraid. We’re always seeing it through our own subjectivity.
But that’s the problem - what’s authentic to one person isn’t to another. Authenticity belongs in the hall of subjectivity as part of human experience. It’s hard to weigh and measure that. What you and I might see as inauthentic crap might be the thing that saves someone else’s life.
I don’t think we are, but I think maybe authenticity is made up inbetween people. For us regulars here, we’re having an authentic experience on the BBS. But an outsider trolley type will show up, call us libtards, proclaim MAGA, and get kicked out, and see us as existing entirely in the wrong way - to them, we are inauthentic because of what we believe. They think they are living the most righteous and authentic life possible, going from message board to message board to stick it to the libtards.
I grapple with authenticity, because it’s a strong feeling and my suspicion is that it’s part and parcel of the rise of mass culture in the first place. maybe it all goes back to good old Walter Benjamin and the entire concept of mechanical reproduction in the first place? Maybe we need to go back to that and maybe to some Gramsci too and wrestle with both of them a little bit more.
Or when it never materializes, you can look back and say “wow, Mindysan isn’t so dumb!” 
To be fair, that can be the PERCEPTION of poseurs, right? Because sometimes it’s the ingroup attempting to keep out those they think don’t belong. That conceptuatlization can cut both ways, because it can be used to both protect the ingroup but also to punish people who the ingroup decides doesn’t belong.
I don’t know. I try not to make assumptions about people, I guess? For me I try to let people tell me who they are, which can be a hard thing to do. Our natural tendency is to make assumptions based on outward appearances, and sometimes that’s not accurate (although sometimes it is). But I also guess that it doesn’t bother me so much when I see people with shirts of bands they probably don’t listen to.
But were they outside of the industry - they were on Top of the Pops, right? And initially EMI picked them up? But most certainly, them touring shithole clubs and playing for small audiences influenced a lot of individuals to go start bands. But they also weren’t the only ones who did that.
I don’t know… but the way you’re talking about the Sex Pistols, it kind of reminds me of how baby boomers talk about seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan (at least American boomers - for British Boomers, it was probably some different way of seeing them for the first time). It reminds me that I think that all the postwar generations probably have more in common than different.
