You guys still exist?
Nothing makes you run back to a.g* than vapid conversation. I've been on
this lj community called "Neo_goth_sucks" and on the surface, it seems
alright, except once you get involved you realize that much of the
discussion centers around a bunch of 20 year olds pretending they lived
in 1983.
They spend all their time googling "goth", downloading all the music
from 20 years ago, bookmarking wikipedia, and slagging their metal
inclined counter parts.
tada! Insta culture, but it's goth light. It's the cheap chinese rip
off, the sum of parts, without the breath of life. And the breath of
life is *context*.
Essentially, they are getting the cliff notes on the subculture and
pretending they are experts.
The ignorance is forgivable, but the arrogance is rather tragic, b/c
this is suppose to be their glory days, their time to ****ne, to create,
to explore and they are simply squandering it, by sitting in their rooms
on the internet, stealing another person's history, style, memories and
claiming it for their own completely out of the context in which made
the glory days so glorious.
Within the time, the era, the politics, the culture, the mores of society.
They offer nothing to the legacy, other than a bad parody of an era gone
by that they were never part of.
I want to make a version of "you weren't there" for them:
"And no you weren't at a goth club in the 80's, [1]no you weren't there.
"And no you didn't see Rozz and saw he was a dick, no your weren't there.
"And you didn't say a last good-bye to your favorite club, so you don't
know how it felt.
Walking arm in arm with your mates one last time as the lights went on
and the sun rising
All this information swims round and round like like circular links on
wikipedia going nowhere."
jv
[1] Most of us weren't but we never claimed we were. We just picked up
where we were, and contributed from that day forward.
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