All Quoted from Fletcher_Box From Vampire Freaks.
These are his thoughts, so read them.
It seems to me that this is a cult for the intelligent as it is the prerequisite for joining. Now, it also has occurred to me that there must also, horribly, be emos in ths cult. Now, as much of an oxymoron as it is there must be intelligent emos here. So I want an actual ******** argument here, Jesus.
I have been asked and censored on several occasions now as to why I hate emo. This is my last post, and I hope for once you emo bastards will actually take the time to a) read it b) actually think c) make a relatively decent argument towards it. In my own opinion I dislike emos. With reasons I have validated on several occasions without regard from any of you aside from censorship. There are MANY reasons to dislike emo. Some choose the more apparent then others. But perhaps if I try and show you mine, and you pay attention to people like me, you might be able to actually see what opinion looks like. Who knows, you might just form one of your own.
I don't hate emo because it's different. It's not. Nor is it because I'm "jealous". Most certainly not. I hate emo simply because it doesn't push for personal development. If all the people in ******** cults are punks (quoted from an anti-anti emo cult), then as before, I'll use punk as your comparative of sub cultures. Punk pushes for personal strength, that we may unite in strength and remove the chains of oppression pushed down upon us by the idiocy of the norm. They recognized issues, and set forth ways to change it. They saw a government of corruption and hypocrisies, and set forth doctrines such as Marx and Stirner to which we should follow. To which we should understand so as to someday we may actually make a difference. But rather through anarchy or socialism or even nihilism punk found a way to push our minds to INDIVDUAL opinion, thought, and activism. And as far as your trendy ******** clothes, punk once again pushed for an actual statement. Puck realized that although wearing something different is a statement, it is not something that should be dictated to you by your favorite band. But most importantly, the reason punk is a positive sub culture and being used as an example. Punk focuses on STRENGTH and the ability to change things around you that weaken or corrupt us. Such as emo.
Let us look at another popular genre to compare. The brother of punk, and the confusion to emos. Goth. This label has even been referred under "Emo's with bad makeup" so you would expect sympathy from this kind. But none is given or even related to. Why? Because once again "Goth" focuses on personal development, on pushing oneself to be above what is normal or expected. Goth believed that everything, even hate, held its own beauty. One simply must push the boundaries of normal or "conformist" thinking to see it. Goth also saw the flaws of religion and began spreading the gospel of the left hand religions and philosophers such as Levay or even Paganism. But the point is it wanted its followers to be different, to be intelligent, to be beautiful.
These are just labels. But labels empower and separate us. And as much as you may wish to deny it, once you allow others to apply that label, you DO become part of it. Don't tell me that when you splash on some red eye shadow underneath the hair that covers your face that you aren't like them. Why hang a flag above your home if you don't support the nation?
But what does emo offer to its followers? To focus on the pain. To choose not to get past the pain but to focus and perpetuate it in this mindless ******** melancholy. It's NOT ok to be depressed. Every once and a while, yes, we all get down. Everyone feels lonely from time to time, everyone finds a flaw within themselves they'd like to change, and everyone gets dumped and feels like a b***h at least once. But the point is that people "get over it". They move on and accept what happened. If it can be changed, then change it. If it can't, then move on and enjoy what you can. You grow from this pain though. All these problems that hit you, builds character when you move forward. But emo doesn't push for that onward growth. It believes it better to cry constantly, to write poetry so you may always have a reason to relapse to the negativity, supports and glorifies self-mutilation! So that the scars may always remind you of how "depressed" you are. So that you may "feel bad" for cutting and ashamed of it. So that you may show it to "just a few" people. So that you may promise you'll stop to them so they think you're getting better. And so that when even the slightest thing goes wrong, you may start again, continue to "feel bad" for breaking your promise. And finally, get extra pity and sympathy when your friend finds out. If you're lucky, they may even get angry for your lying so that you can b***h about their "back stabbing". See how everything about the culture links towards cycling all the pain. It doesn't want you to move on or improve, because otherwise you'd see just how moronic it is.
And don't think this is "just who you are". This is a ******** trend that's sole purpose is to brainwash. It is more funded by MTV then the spice girls, back street boys, or even 50 cent ever were. But you think emo doesn't brainwash, fine, let's play a game. I'm going to make a list of philosophers or artists that defined punk and Goth from centuries past. Then, I ask that you help list a few "emo" philosophers
Bruno Bauer, Georg Hegel, Karl Marx, Max Stirner, Anton Levay, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schelling, Ludwig Feuerbach, David Strauss, Edgar Allen Poe, William Kingdon Clifford, or since emo only listens to musicians, let's use the political activist Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys). This is only a small list off the top of my head. Please, show me the intellectual side of emo beyond trendy clothes and MTV ruled music. Please prove me wrong. But you can't, and that should be your first time to stop following this label, this "culture".
Once again, I don't hate emo because it's different. I don't hate it because it's the cool thing to do. Nor do I believe ALL emos are the same and deserve to die. I believe that emo is a trend that focuses on negativity and slows down maturity. I also believe that as long as you allow yourself to be a slave to this trend, you deserve and need to continue to be discriminated against. Why? So that you may one day realize for one, how to form a defense and opinion when provoked aside from mindless bitching, and that you may as well realize your own shortcomings for adhering to a culture that has NOTHING to offer.
This is my opinion. This is why I hate emo. I challenge you to disprove me. I implore you to. But then again, you were of course too cool to read it. Or just too stupid to formulate any response aside from "******** u, ur stuupid".
So please, tell me YOUR opinion, and if you're feeling like really proving wrong name A philosopher who contributed to the thinking of the emo culture. Not the real emo culture of course. The fake one we use now. And no, Benji and Gerrard do not count
heart
[`Novacaine] Community Member 
|
|
