| Maybe I do have a "back in the day" idea, but I'm well aware that it represents my idea of what SxE means/meant to me and my friends and not
necessarily what it was or is like anywhere else or even to anybody else. We all have to interpret things through the filter of our own experiences
and perceptions, don't we? I'm certainly the last person to deny that there are and always have been assholes in the scene or anywhere else, so I'm
really not sure why you have this idea stuck in your head that I believe that it was some utopian ideal up until these bands came along. I will admit,
my personal ideology in regard to SxE is much more in line with the lyrics of Minor Threat than with any of the militant stuff, so maybe that's what
you're picking up on. It's all about personal choice and not a set of rules to me, I don't understand the reasoning in trying to convert the whole
world to my way of thinking. It works for me, but nothing works the same way for everybody across the board. Militancy about almost anything seems
pretty silly to me and in my experience, the hardest, most militant people are always the ones to swing back the furthest in the opposite direction. I
do see an enormous difference between then and now in terms of Hard Core though and I'm not just talking about the sound. I see very little of the
mentality that made me feel like I had found a home in what's around now. Maybe you never encountered that feeling in any scene you were involved in,
but I certainly did and I find it sad that there's nothing resembling that in Hard Core anymore. Well, maybe not absolutely nothing, but it's a
definite rarity nowadays. |
