Simpson Response

As everyone else has commented, the article was long and confusing. I feel like more explanation in lecture and discussion is needed. Nevertheless, I prominently remember Simpson's ideas of retro-nationalism where people longed for the GDR after it dissolved with the fall of the Berlin Wall. It seems like after dissent from punk and other such forms of resistance, there is a need for retro-ideals. The only reason I remember this is because it relates somewhat to my research topic and where I dealt with a form of retro-domesticity in the "Third Wave" feminism of today's women. After years of rejecting domestic roles and wanting other opportunities and identities outside this sphere, women are now yearning to regain these domestic skills. So possibly, this brings to light the question of whether this is a pattern in culture - for an amount of time people accept social views when there is stability in the government but then shift to countering these views when when there's instability only to return to them again and reclaim it as a "new culture". No wonder some people argue that today's  culture can be an amalgamation of passing fads that seem to rise and fall with the resurgence of yearning for a counter-public or an underground scene.