Cultural dead-ends/transgression

[kales_love]

This basic idea keeps coming up a lot in my life lately- esp. as I consume more and more subcultural visual media.

I think there's this tendency in a lot of punk subculture in particular for there to be a divide between people who are explicitly political, and those who are just rebelling, or who are perhaps political/transgressive in a more vague

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[greensword]

There is also the aspect in which linking the scene to the political can drive out those for whom the politics is a fit but for whom the scene is not.

When I was in Sacramento I did Food Not Bombs for a little while, but I felt really uncomfortable socially. I was the only one not wearing all black. I didn't know the bands the other people there were talking about. I definitely felt like I was getting a "what are you doing here?" vibe.

I mean, that's just one experience (and I've since had other good ones - I made friends with some FnB folks in Cambridge a few weeks before I left the area and plan on hooking up with them once I get back) but I feel like it's another way in which the goals you're talking about here get derailed.