Article: Why Being Anticonformity is Worse Than Conformity

[TygerLili]

The article was good, and presents a lot of ideas that I've had for years, but never quite figured out how to put succinctly into words.

As far as how the article relates to the people and community here: I'm not touching that with a 10 foot pole...

Edited December 11, 2010 by TygerLili

[n0Mad]

The article was good, and presents a lot of ideas that I've had for years, but never quite figured out how to put succinctly into words.

Hey, that was my response. Why don't you post something original, will ya? Conformist.

j/k

[taysteewonderbunny]

Yes, perhaps the ideas in the article needed to be voiced, but as is often the case in such articles, I wonder, why does the author stop there? It's easy to criticize something. I know; I do it all day (but silently). What does he propose in its place?

On the dual assumption that conformity in some cases is beneficial and in others not, what are the characteristics of each general case? How can we minimize conformity in the destructive cases? [Like loss of agency typified by the inuring of city dwellers to the indigent or, in extreme cases, the German people to the plight of the Jews, etc.]

That is what piques my interest. If we are going to be non-conformists (yeah, even together in highly similar ways), why, and to what end?

[JohnKnow70]

I find that goths spend more time worrying about whether other goths are legit than any other subculture. The victorian goths and old school goths spend a lot of time ripping on gravers or ebm fanatics and they all don't want the juggalos going to their clubs because they are "fake". At least that has been my experience.

[n0Mad]

they all don't want the juggalos going to their clubs because they are "fake"

I don't want juggalos coming to my clubs because clowns freak the shit out of me.

[darknight1]

Whatever happened to just being whatever the hell you're comfortable with and leaving it at that?

[Rev.Reverence]

...just be you...

[n0Mad]

...just be you...

"Be what you're like, be like yourself, and though I'm having a wonderful time I'd rather be whistling in the dark *boom* ..." -They Might Be Giants

[Mean Salley]

5 points I've been making about music for years, but I couldn't possibly know anything because you know me, and I'm from Detroit.

Ideas like this can only come from people you don't know and from people not from Detroit. St. Masey summed it all up nearly in it's entirety.

Tattoos, music, piercings, hairstyles, scenes, political persuasion, clubs, bitchity bitch bitch... mostly has to to with trying to get laid by the chick with the biggest tits who is also into the same tattoos, music, piercings, hairstyles, scenes, political persuasion, clubs, bitchity bitch bitch.

On a sarcastic note; go see another band because they look cool in your scene, go see some chick because she looks cute and slutty, support another band that will make any sacrifice to be exactly like whichever band gets laid the most. Then complain about the music, you have every right.

Also, sit home and play x-box, pop anti-depressants, watch TV, and update your facebook 70 times. Because no one else is doing that, and all the chicks love it.

[DorianDawes]

"Be yourself. Everyone else is taken." -Oscar Wilde

Personally, the term "Goth" has only applied in considerably recent years, when really the movement can be traced as far back as the Romantic Poets, most notably Lord Byron. Just be yourself. Wear what makes you comfortable. Listen to the music you like. I'm just here to socialize with people of like-minded interests. "Goth" is just a handy umbrella to find such people and compare notes.

Not everyone is going to lie in their room reading Lovecraft by candlelight like I do, I know I'm certainly not going to go to a club and rave to big beats and heavy screaming. Different strokes for different folks.

We do what we want.

[Rev.Reverence]

"Be what you're like, be like yourself, and though I'm having a wonderful time I'd rather be whistling in the dark *boom* ..." -They Might Be Giants

NICE ONE, SPOOKY!~