[Apocryphon]

Quibbling about this specific subculture / fashion trend aside, the original post with its pearl-clutching highfalutin language is funny for its naïveté.

Every so-called safe, educated, and cooperative society has a love for the renegade. Pirates and the Wild West. Outlaw bikers and gangsta rap. The Godfather frequently ranks as the best (American) film ever directed. In fact, the United States’ central mythos is built on venerating rules-breaking bad boys who bucked the system. You want to talk other cultures? Cossacks, ronin, bandits of the Water Margin, highwaymen, bushrangers.

Yes, there’s a whole spectrum of cultures and archetypes here, but to decry “this symbology”? Good luck, you’ll have to remove whatever deep-seated part of human psychology that is fascinated by the conventions-breaking wild and free.