Identity politics in America is one of the sort of most surreal things I think most people get exposed to. I tend to look on it with an odd sort of fascination even as I find myself ever more embroiled in it. However, I'm seeing that more and more subcultural identity is sneaking in under the radar as fan culture becomes more and more collaborative.

It seems like being able to contextualise your identity in relation to a popular medium makes it much more acceptable within the past couple of generations. The artful use of trope reference can justify just about any sort of predilection. This sort of pop culture savvy is easily seen in internet memes. Is it that we are finally figuring out how to exploit the cultural capital of our increasingly connected society?

Considering how complex our current culture is I can't help but wonder if there is some sort of seven steps to kevin bacon formula that can be exploited to effectively hack social acceptance of an idea or theory if one knows the cultural context of the audience. I think that this could be an interesting rhetorical challenge, but it also just makes me wonder just what the scale of difference between any given collection of cultural institutions is.

I'm sure there is a framework out there that restates this theory in some sort of elegant axiom, but I'm unaware of it.