03-25-2004, 02:58 AM
I think "Punk" is a better comparative, where the punk culture had a distinctive departure in art, music, and philosophy.
Punk was a bad a comparison for me to use, because it falls into the same trap you mentioned at the end of your post:
Also, when a movement has moved onto the "shock" radar of the popular culture, is when I most notice youth flocking to use it as a means of expressing rebellion.
These are the people I referred to as seeking their own persecution. They are the rebels without a cause. They know the norms of the culture, they want to go against the grain (to be individual rather than part of the machine), so they latch onto something like this. If the movement in question did not have shock value, many of them would have gotten involved in something else. Thus they essential get the reaction they are asking for.
Cryptic says this isn't him, and I take his word for it. I still don't quite "get" the link from point A to point B, as it were. I like a lot of the gothic elements, but they do not create any desire in me to dress strangely for everyday life. But probably that's just me being me.
Punk was a bad a comparison for me to use, because it falls into the same trap you mentioned at the end of your post:
Also, when a movement has moved onto the "shock" radar of the popular culture, is when I most notice youth flocking to use it as a means of expressing rebellion.
These are the people I referred to as seeking their own persecution. They are the rebels without a cause. They know the norms of the culture, they want to go against the grain (to be individual rather than part of the machine), so they latch onto something like this. If the movement in question did not have shock value, many of them would have gotten involved in something else. Thus they essential get the reaction they are asking for.
Cryptic says this isn't him, and I take his word for it. I still don't quite "get" the link from point A to point B, as it were. I like a lot of the gothic elements, but they do not create any desire in me to dress strangely for everyday life. But probably that's just me being me.