RE: Creed's Corner: A Collection of the Morbid, Mysterious, and Mrandom
April 4, 2015 at 7:30 pm
It's less that I'm not interested, and more that I'm not optimistic about the odds of it achieving any kind of success. My chances of remission are very low, and after a behavioral remission, my chances of slipping into a relapse are very high. Hard to want to do something if you know beforehand that all your effort has a high chance of being a colossal waste of time and resources.
Still. I don't see any real alternative.
As far as the counter-culture thing goes, the answer is yes. The goth scene is, however, not as dreary as you might think. First and foremost it's a scene based off of a musical genre, and tends to extend into other musical genres. The aesthetic part is a secondary part of it, and isn't based off of mood or personality as much as a fashion preference that tends to associate with the scene and genres. The attitude part is a stereotype that typically only extends to the moody, angsty high-schoolers. If you want an example of why the perception of goths as being all a bunch of whining mopers as a result of the CC itself is a load of bullshit, look up Aurelio Voltaire. He's a popular musician in the gothic CC, and is known for his up-beat, cheerful personality, despite being madly in love with the CC to the fullest extent.
The goth CC is about acceptance. The motifs of death and darkness, gloom-n-doom are not meant to evoke sadness or glorify unhappiness; they're meant to evoke the acceptance of the inevitable; pain, conflict, death. Things that everyone will have to go through to some extent, save for the latter in which everyone will have to experience to the fullest extent. It's about accepting these things, about rejecting the fear of them.
"We destroy our enemies when we make peace with them."
Still. I don't see any real alternative.
As far as the counter-culture thing goes, the answer is yes. The goth scene is, however, not as dreary as you might think. First and foremost it's a scene based off of a musical genre, and tends to extend into other musical genres. The aesthetic part is a secondary part of it, and isn't based off of mood or personality as much as a fashion preference that tends to associate with the scene and genres. The attitude part is a stereotype that typically only extends to the moody, angsty high-schoolers. If you want an example of why the perception of goths as being all a bunch of whining mopers as a result of the CC itself is a load of bullshit, look up Aurelio Voltaire. He's a popular musician in the gothic CC, and is known for his up-beat, cheerful personality, despite being madly in love with the CC to the fullest extent.
The goth CC is about acceptance. The motifs of death and darkness, gloom-n-doom are not meant to evoke sadness or glorify unhappiness; they're meant to evoke the acceptance of the inevitable; pain, conflict, death. Things that everyone will have to go through to some extent, save for the latter in which everyone will have to experience to the fullest extent. It's about accepting these things, about rejecting the fear of them.
"We destroy our enemies when we make peace with them."
