quoted 3 lines Over here though we'll get a venue with 2000 kids and i'd say a good 50% of
>Over here though we'll get a venue with 2000 kids and i'd say a good 50% of
>them are on drugs and fucked up. Thats just from personal experience in my
>area of the US. It's quite disgusting.
I always find this a interesting perspective in on a music scene that owes
at least part of it's inspiration & roots to the condemned drugs, and drug
users themselves. There are whole genres that are specifically designed to
be experienced on some sort of drug, and many of the underlying elements of
other genres are at least influenced by the use of drugs or the idea that
the people listening to the music will either be on a certain drug or would
have sometime in there life experienced that drug.
It is equivalent to someone greatly admiring tie-dye t-shirts, but hating
that damn pot-smoking acidhead hippy who created it.
Two side notes:
First, I live in america also. Trust me there is allot more alcohol related
incidents of violence and deaths in relation to violence and death caused by
rave related drugs. If you don't trust me, just turn on your local news and
see how long it take to hear of someone who died in a drunk driving related
incident, or go to a local bar or club and see tempers flare and fights
break out once the drinking gets started. Now do the same for rave related
drugs and see which proverbial hand gets full first. A person on a rave
related drug is more likely to want to hug you or engage in a intellectual
conversation. I am not saying that there are not bad effects, just that they
miniscule when compared to the bad effects of legal drugs.
This leads me to believe that drugs are just a scapegoat to underlying
reasons why governments want raves shut down. What the true reason is I
could only speculate. One thing I do know is through out history governments
have never liked large gathering of open minded youngsters.
Second, I don't like the implication that all drugs are bad, and the people
on them are bad. Who sets these standards. It sounds more like memetic
control mechanism. When I first went to raves I was under the impression
that electronic music was terrible. The only reason I went was to look for a
certain drug that I had been wanting to experiment for the last 5 years
before hand. Once I took this drug electronic music made allot more sense,
actually allot of things made a lot more sense, but that is beside the
point. Today I no longer do drugs. Besides the occasional psychedelic maybe
once or twice a year. I guess I grew out of them. But I didn't grow out of
my love for electronic music it becomes wider and deeper everyday. You can
blame this on those evil drugs.
Lastly, the 50% of the 2000 you mentioned. Is that just a device to prove a
point. Or do you actually do representative sampling when you go to these
events?
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