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DECULTURE

                                                       January 19, 2010
  I stumbled across a new                              May     12, 2012
  exclamation the other day:
  "deculture!"                                         From a post to
                                                       alt.gothic
  It's used repeatedly in the "Macross Frontier"
  sub-titles, from which I gather that it means
  something like "astonishing".

  It could be that the idea has to do with
  being confronted with something that's so         SEX_CROSSED
  shocking it knocks the culture out of you
  ("renders you speechless"?).

  Doing websearches, oddly enough, does
  not quite settle the question of what it
  means... information is actually a
  little sketchy on this one, and I have a
  sneaking [1] suspicion that this might       [1] Most of my suspicions are
  be a fabricated meme-- it's entirely         more like "shrieking suspicions"
  possible the Macross combine thought it
  would be a good idea to try to put over
  over a new youth culture ejaculation [2].    [2] Oh, you know
                                               what I mean.
  If so, it's somewhat remarkable that
  they've had any success at all with
  this... usually these kinds of maneuvers
  just come off as obviously inauthentic,
  and no one really buys in. [3]               [3] There's an 80s teen drama
                                               called "Tough Turf" [4] that
  In this case, the phrase                     I actually have some affection
  "deculture" has some odd                     for, where a secondary
  resonances within the Macross                character goes around remarking
  "saga", but primarily with the               "Whoa!  State of the art!".
  first series "Super                     
  Dimensional Fortress Macross",               [4] Among other virtues, it has
  which among other things is                  the Jim Carrol band appear at
  about a race of repressed                    the end.
  aliens who are said to be                      
  "without culture", and who go                  (His performance here may be
  into shock when confronted                     lackluster, but handing him
  with a woman singing a song,                   some cash is a good in and of
  or worse, men and women                        itself.)
  kissing each other.                            
  
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                                    It is somewhat amazing, by the way, that
                                    American macross fans are so hostile to
                                    "Macross 7"-- which has a male guitar
         SEVEN_NOT_PLUS             hero dodging around in a fighter craft
                                    singing bad pop songs at invading psychic
                                    vampires-- and yet they apparently really
                                    like the original material in "Super
                                    Dimensional Fortress".... if one premise
                                    doesn't make you cringe, why would the
                                    other bother you?

                                         (Now, if you wanted to argue
                                         that both of them are too dumb
                                         to waste any time on... )

                                         But then, I digress.



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