Where'd all the straight-edge people go?
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Felt like they were on the rage as I was finishing high school, but now they're nowhere to be seen.
I'd wager most of you haven't even heard the term 'straight-edge' in months, or possibly years.
Used to go to the Cuckoo's Nest.
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Felt like they were on the rage as I was finishing high school, but now they're nowhere to be seen.
I'd wager most of you haven't even heard the term 'straight-edge' in months, or possibly years.
Davey Havok is still out there, somewhere
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Felt like they were on the rage as I was finishing high school, but now they're nowhere to be seen.
I'd wager most of you haven't even heard the term 'straight-edge' in months, or possibly years.
I was agreeing with you cause I haven't really seen or used my straight edge since high school. Here I am thinking I don't even have a ruler. Then I read the comments. I guess it's not the literal straight edge.
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The movement started in the early 80s by Ian Mackaye from the straight edge band Minor Threat?
Ian has always had the position it was a personal choice. Not some dogmatic bullshit. They were just kids who wanted to get into shows.
The song straight edge was just his personal opinion. Bands like SSD (Society System Decontrol) took it a little further. And then the NYHC scene in the mid to late 80's took it even further. That's how you ended up with Earth Crisis and victory records in the 90's.
He doesn't really like being tied to the straight edge movement.
The documentary "Salad Days" has a great interview with him about it
He also has a good interview in this book:
Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics
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It was an international thing but there was a very big sXe scene in Umeå. If you're into 1990s punk and hardcore you may be familiar with Refused.
Södra Sverige och metal
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Södra Sverige och metal
vilket kanske förklarar det.Jag växte upp i Stockholm och där var det straight edgare på konserter.
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Jag växte upp i Stockholm och där var det straight edgare på konserter.
Sunkiga Växjö här
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Maybe once you grow up you become first a Sober person, then a Teetotaler.
You're not allowed to be Sober if you don't have an addict phase, it's discrimination quite frankly, you have to go straight to Teetotaler
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I'm still here!
Okay but why, acid is basically risk free
Except if you have unmanaged blood pressure problems I think but it helps manage it as long as a dose won't pop your skull off
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Felt like they were on the rage as I was finishing high school, but now they're nowhere to be seen.
I'd wager most of you haven't even heard the term 'straight-edge' in months, or possibly years.
We found out acid is all fun no downside
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Felt like they were on the rage as I was finishing high school, but now they're nowhere to be seen.
I'd wager most of you haven't even heard the term 'straight-edge' in months, or possibly years.
Because as an adult, you can simply choose whether to use drugs/alcohol and it's not a big part of your identity like it was as a teen.
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Okay but why, acid is basically risk free
Except if you have unmanaged blood pressure problems I think but it helps manage it as long as a dose won't pop your skull off
Why would I take acid, though? Do you live your life on why-nots?!
I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't drink coffee and avoid caffeine in general... Why would I do fucking acid? Plus, surely that's expensive, no? I've never actually encountered any acid IRL so I've no idea how hard it might be to find, would I to look.
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We found out acid is all fun no downside
Shrooms are even better!
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Felt like they were on the rage as I was finishing high school, but now they're nowhere to be seen.
I'd wager most of you haven't even heard the term 'straight-edge' in months, or possibly years.
A lot of straight edge teenagers either lose their edge (leave alternative subcultures) or quit going straight (start using psychoactive substances). That said a lot of punks wind up sober and at that point can be considered straight edge.
So where are they? The sort of places alternative folks gather when not consuming substances. They're at an anarchist books to prisoners program, or food not bombs, maybe one is in the band at a small punk show you're going to. Hell maybe it's even one of your coworkers.
Subcultures are really easy to see in high school because teenagers often don't like to code switch and they've got little filtering. Add in that its easier to be sober when you're a teenager and it feels rebellious and like you're saying fuck you to the man. Meanwhile at 30, especially if you're deep in alternative subcultures, you've probably learned the demons your friends are trying to drown in whiskey. You may have friends who had the whole Pat the Bunny arc. Loudly announcing your sobriety and acting like it's super cool is one thing at 16 and another thing when someone you know just fell off the wagon.
Oh also as adults a lot of them are more annoying about being vegan than being sober.
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Okay but why, acid is basically risk free
Except if you have unmanaged blood pressure problems I think but it helps manage it as long as a dose won't pop your skull off
Some people don't want to try it. I love acid, and I think a lot of people could use it, but for some people it doesn't sound like something they're interested in so no harm done by them not doing it.
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Felt like they were on the rage as I was finishing high school, but now they're nowhere to be seen.
I'd wager most of you haven't even heard the term 'straight-edge' in months, or possibly years.
Drugs are such a chore. You try them, then you get addicted to them, then you end up in an endless pursuit of extra money to keep funding the addiction in addition to all of your other basic survival expenses. It's a maniacal existence. From what I've observed. And I'm not interested in any of that maddening mayhem.
Call me straight-edge if you need to label everything. But I'm not interested in labels either.
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Why would I take acid, though? Do you live your life on why-nots?!
I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't drink coffee and avoid caffeine in general... Why would I do fucking acid? Plus, surely that's expensive, no? I've never actually encountered any acid IRL so I've no idea how hard it might be to find, would I to look.
Oh, you're scared of trying new things that might get you in trouble, that's fair, police states and whatnot
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Shrooms are even better!
Eh, I don't care for the taste or chance of getting them mixed up with very, very unfun mushrooms but it's the same idea in the end.
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Eh, I don't care for the taste or chance of getting them mixed up with very, very unfun mushrooms but it's the same idea in the end.
I prefer the come down of shrooms myself. Plus the communing with nature lol. Acid is a lot of fun too mind you
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I mean they may not know what straight edge means, but there are a shit-ton of people who don't do drugs or alcohol..
I don't do either but I don't call myself straight edge because everyone I knew who did was an asshole.
