Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 9:51:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: WAGONERN-AT-JUNCOL.JUNIATA.EDU
Subject: rave culture



On April 27 Michael Current wrote:

(heavily edited)

>But I really tire of the tendancy on the left to constantly put down
>every alternative social phenomenon that emerges because it does not
>live up to the standards of someone's theory or to the way it was in
>"the good old days."

>No, rave culture is not the sixties left or anything remotely like it.
>Then again, it isn't the sixties any more.  And what kind of continuing
>culture or role models did the sixties left leave for kids of today.
>Not a whole fuck of a lot.  A bunch of stuck-up nostalgists pronouncing
>down there noses against anything and everything that tries to be
>a little outside the mainstream.
                                                                                From someone who remembers the antics of the late 60's and the 70's
pretty well, I can only say he's got it right. What most 60's people
will *never* admit (because they have edited memories) is that on an
individual level, most of the 'revolutionary' actions were 'radical'
only if 'radical' consists of finding better drugs and getting laid.
Nothing wrong with that, but there's a lot wrong with getting so
goddam sanctimonious about it.
=>They were hypocrites then, and they still are<
nathan

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