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After reading that I think that maybe it's actually a postmodern critique of subcultural identities within the bland capitalist, post-industrial Western European Anglo-Saxon settler-colony monoculture. The author asks some deep and disturbing questions of his audience: what constitutes membership of a social group? How is your identity constructed in a sea of competing narratives? Is membership of said social group only meaningful in relation to other social groups?  Is Dave Burgess being a massive f*cking troll? Is it possible to be authentic in an age where hipster irony has become ubiquitous? Who truly owns anything once it is in the public domain? Is there any such thing as a 'real person' behind socially presented personas or are the people themselves merely the sum of their socially-presented personas? Is professional sport a shameless money-grabbing exercise on behalf of a cynical elite or the last bastion of tribalism in a homogenous urban social landscape? Are fervent supporters of sports teams engaging in harmless fun or reinforcing dangerous stereotypes of aggressive masculinity?