Sub-cultures

[Walker]

What sub-cultures do you belong to?

Or are you rather mainstream?

I give examples:

Rocker, Punker, Popper, Waver, Rapper, Gothic, Skinhead, Red Skin, Piercer, Tatoo Freak, Burner (new technique of piercing), Strong Christian, Strong Islam, Right Extremist, Left Extremist, Nazi, Anarchist, Strong Capitalist, Strong Marxist, Biker, Manta Driver, Porsche Driver, Trabbi Driver, Classic Car Fan, Drug Addict, Alcoholic, Anonymous Alcoholic, Devote in hehe, Dominant in hehe, Fetishist (spelling?), Dog LOVER, Horse LOVER, Professional Student or anything else?

I am:

Waver
Marxist
Classic Car Fan
Weed Lover
Societal Outsider

Please reply :grngrin:

[alexp]

this is hardly on topic is it?

.....so I'm moving it.

PS what's a waver?

[Walker]

If yes - sorry

[alexp]

no problemo. game topics for games. off topic for everything else.

[tenebra_uk]

Originally posted by alexp
PS what's a waver?

Maybe as in New Wave? :confblue:

[Warspite]

What? You mean like Spandau Ballet? tell me it aint so...:rollani:

[Whitewolf]

Whoa.......
so manu sub cultures.......

[tenebra_uk]

Go on, they weren't New Wave :wierdblu: You had all the Gary Numan and stuff :grngrin: You old dj :grntngue: By the way, I never asked you whether you were a radio or a club dj

[Warspite]

Clubs dude - I was livin it large during the Rave boom.
Funny - for a bit. Then all the spaced out punters started to do my head in:bigeye:

[tenebra_uk]

Ahh, the old days :grngrin: I used to be a radio dj, did a few gigs as well but the radio thing has always been my passion :grngrin:

[Walker]

So you have no fun?

You are all nice boys and girls?

Man that is sad! :wierdblu:

Or too scared to reply?

muwhahahahahahahaha

[suicidesquad]

I'm a........philosopher! Yes. That's what I am.....
I'll get my coat.....

[Warspite]

Hey SS, why aren't you Irish anymore?

Hey , Irish!? is that a sub-culture too? :bigeye:

[suicidesquad]

Irish? What makes you think I'm Irish? :bigeye:

[Minos]

Originally posted by Walker
So you have no fun?

You are all nice boys and girls?

Man that is sad! :wierdblu:

Or too scared to reply?

muwhahahahahahahaha Insults, is it? Well, you said "Please reply", so here I go...

You say "Man that is sad" of those who don't comply to your own set of beliefs. "So you have no fun?" That's pretty egotistical, isn't it? Who's sad? Generally it's the people who make remarks like "How sad!" who are the ones who are insecure.

If you feel you want to conform to certain standards by belonging to particular groups that's fine; after all, most people do – it's part of human nature. (Though I'm not sure how you can have a sub-culture of Societical Outsiders – a bit of a contradiction there.) However don't mock those who show independence of mind by not wanting to fit in with your own classification system. :grntngue:

BTW – I'm an armchair philosopher and a pedant. And yes, you did spell fetishist correctly. :tup:

[Walker]

It is better to be an individual.
To be uniform makes you a uniform.
I do not like uniforms.
Member of the peace movement I was.
So unifomrs are soldiers.
Uniforms shows complying to a system.
The system of powerful
To comply with powerful is boring.
It shows that you have no power.
Otherwise why would you need uniforms.
Fitting to the uniform system.
Part of the machinery.

Greetings to 1984 :bigeye:

I was a punk, a nerd and be a philosopher, too.

My appearance is acorat, now and in my mind i*m a anarchist as before, but i do a good job and in my freetime i change my mind,
have fun with Rock, HipHop, Trance, Dub and TripHop and love to smoka. :D

[Minos]

Originally posted by Walker
It is better to be an individual.
To be uniform makes you a uniform.
I do not like uniforms.
Member of the peace movement I was.
So unifomrs are soldiers.
Uniforms shows complying to a system.
The system of powerful
To comply with powerful is boring.
It shows that you have no power.
Otherwise why would you need uniforms.
Fitting to the uniform system.
Part of the machinery.

Greetings to 1984 :bigeye: I won't argue with that.

However, most revolutions start off with decent objectives – give power to the people! Which is fine as far as it goes. But when you mention 1984, just remember Animal Farm too...

Though ironically – in the West at least – a shift of power from elected government to large commercial bodies and media organisations seems to be more the way things are going.
What I find interesting is that people really do like uniforms – except that they must have brand names like 'Nike' or 'Levis' on them. The idea that companies like Nike must be laughing up their sleeves at the way people pay them to promote their own products doesn't seem to occur to them... Not exactly as sinister as a totalitarian state, but an insight into the human urge to conform.

[Walker]

No not nonsense.

Though ironically – in the West at least – a shift of power from elected government to large commercial bodies and media organisations seems to be more the way things are going.

Well that develoment was there since a long time. Most people just did not realise it. Many people nowadays are even not aware that this movement was coming. Just think that the governments enabled those organisation to build up their power.

What I find interesting is that people really do like uniforms – except that they must have brand names like 'Nike' or 'Levis' on them. The idea that companies like Nike must be laughing up their sleeves at the way people pay them to promote their own products doesn't seem to occur to them...

Yeah - but how far is the awareness of people already limited? The ordinary person will be the part of the machine soon.

Well - I dunno - but it looks a little bit scary.