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- From: bbehlen@soda.berkeley.edu (Brian Behlendorf (Vitamin B))
- Newsgroups: alt.rave
- Subject: Re: Most Commercial Rave.
- Date: 26 Dec 1992 04:11:57 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
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- References: <1992Dec24.161115.9991@rose.com> <1992Dec25.112533.9377@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec25.222701.17033@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec25.222701.17033@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu (hackers schmackers) writes:
- |Somewhere in Cyberspace, tedwards@wam.umd.edu said about 'Most
- |Commercial Rave.':
- ||In article <1992Dec24.161115.9991@rose.com| greg.ipp@rose.com (greg
- ||ipp) writes:
- |||He makes it sound like a rip-off of the 1960s Tim Leary days. Why
- |||can't we ever be given our OWN culture, our OWN identity? Everything
- |||is compared to what older generations did yesterday...
- ||
- ||Because we are only part of grand cycle...raving is just a modern
- ||expression of a beat and a feeling locked deep inside the psyche
- ||of humanity for eons, expressed, stifled, supressed, and
- ||expressed once more.
- |
- |That's all well and cool, but don't you think that cycle is evolving?
- |for it to contunue to evolve, it should be likened to the past, but
- |also seen in a new (strobe-)light.....
- |
- |I actually give the generalized-stereotyped-popular-media a lot of
- |credit in this historical sense
- |
- |(ohhhhhhhhhh, Blue Room on Commercial College RADIO alteralertalertalert)
- |[hope your nuclear techno-shelters are well deconstructed]
- |
- |ok, now that I'm zoning on the electro-waves of the Blue Room, I'll
- |try and get back to what I was originally subjectively subjecting
- |to...
- |
- |I actually give the generalized-stereotyped-popular-media a lot of
- |credit in this historical sense - seeing it as a mostly new culture
- |wit a little 'o dee ole.....Personal-e I don't even trust too much
- |anyone who DOESN'T liken rave to the 60's in some hyper-dimensional
- |sense or another.....
- |
- |[booooooo, they played the 3minute edit on the detachable penis
- |corporate-college radi0.....bah......If it's under 40minutes it's not
- |worth z0ning 2......=) ]
- |
- |At any rate, Timoth-e Lear-e is into raves....There's a reason for
- |that...don't deny it in your mind, don't deny it in the media, don't
- |deny it to other ravers, just try and realize why he likes raves, and
- |movin' on up from there.....Raves are much more than Leary and the
- |60's we all know that, but if we don't learn from the past we can't
- |move forward.....
- |
-
- Like Chris Beaumont quoted to me: "History doesn't repeat, it rhymes!"
-
- Brian
-