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- From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
- Subject: Re: rave?
- Message-ID: <y9rrnyg@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 93 09:14:29 GMT
- Organization: Usenet Power Elite: Crush-The-Innocent-Newbies Strike Team
- References: <1993Jan01.023532.8182@rose.com>
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- greg.ipp@rose.com (greg ipp) writes:
-
- > the whole idea of a rave (and the basis of the subculture it is
- > spawning) is to get together with people you don't know, and meet them.
-
- And that, by itself, isn't attractive to me. I'm not a gregarious person
- -- crowds of strangers don't make me feel welcome, they make me feel
- crowded. In addition, the peace-love-dope-global-acceptance-and-
- understanding subculture that pervades the current rave scene makes me
- uncomfortable because it's not something I have much respect for. (As an
- analogy, I think Christ was probably a pretty nice guy, but you wouldn't
- find me in a church unless I had a mighty good reason to be there. I
- watch 'Star Trek' but don't go to Star Trek conventions. And so forth.)
-
- > ...as you stated in your message, you _would_ go to a rave if you knew
- > people from the net were going to be there (ie. DJing).
-
- Yeah, because after several years of facelessly throwing messages back and
- forth, it'd be great to finally meet some of those folks in person.
-
- --
- Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)
-