Where'd all the straight-edge people go?
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All right then, congratulations on being at peace with your addictions.
You too.
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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'm not really into punk scenes or anything similar, but I feel like most young people now that would be straight edge are not adopting the aesthetic because they're more conservative.
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Wait till you hear of Syd Barrett.
Uh huh, I know what the kinds of people who believe in reefer madness think of a guy who definitely did more and had more mental trauma going on than LSD.
I also know he died at 60 of pancreatic cancer and not an OD.
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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.
This Lemmy does not know best.
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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 knew two straight edge kids in highschool. They both died of overdoses shortly after highschool.
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So does straight edge strictly refer to not doing drugs? If that's the definition, then I'm a straight edged person... Hell, I don't even drink and I work for a Scottish company where all my co-workers drink like fish.
I'm not religious, it has just always seemed dumb to me that people felt they needed to be inebriated to have a good time. Maybe this is just the normal for them so they don't know any different? But doesn't that seem pretty stupid? Anyways, I was stubborn in college and resisted peer pressure and by the time I didn't care anymore, I just never saw the need to start drinking (or doing drugs). But I'm not here preach, I don't really care what you do as long as it doesn't affect me (i.e. drunk driving).
I'm a CTO for a midsized company. I have three kids and I've been happily married for over 25 years. Between my friends, there are more people who don't drink than those who do, but at work I'm definitely the oddball... But I'm also old enough that I don't really give a shit what other people think so I'm perfectly happy going along and being the guy who doesn't drink.
wrote last edited by [email protected]No that's not straight edge, you have to be sober but also still part of the punk/hardcore subcultures where you'd be expected to partake.
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We found out acid is all fun no downside
Apart from the awkward social encounters with normies.
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Oh, you're scared of trying new things that might get you in trouble, that's fair, police states and whatnot
I'm not sure what you mean LOL
Not sure how you got that idea from what I wrote, but drugs are actually legal to buy and consume where I live. Doing acid wouldn't get me in trouble with the authorities! Well, unless I had a really bad trip and did illegal things, I guess, but I doubt that's likely.
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No that's not straight edge, you have to be sober but also still part of the punk/hardcore subcultures where you'd be expected to partake.
Ah, ok, then that's not me.
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Apart from the awkward social encounters with normies.
Fuck em, they suck.
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People that listen to hardcore that abstain from drugs and alcohol and commonly also from eating meat. They were easily recognizable by having painted a large sXe with a marker on their hand and maybe some additional letters on top and bottom for their particular flavour of Straight Edge. Here in Sweden they were quite common amongst punk rockers from the mid eighties up to late nineties.
From you link:
While the commonly expressed aspects of the straight edge subculture have been abstinence from alcohol, nicotine, and illegal drugs, there have been considerable variations. Disagreements often arise as to the primary reasons for living straight edge.
Wouldn't having to justify why you're making a choice to someone be anti-punk in general? If someone is disagreeing with you for you choosing to be "straight edge" shouldn't the punk response to them be: "Fuck you"?
Additionally, if someone that is "straight edge" is telling someone else they should also be straight edge, isn't the response to them also "Fuck you"?
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From you link:
While the commonly expressed aspects of the straight edge subculture have been abstinence from alcohol, nicotine, and illegal drugs, there have been considerable variations. Disagreements often arise as to the primary reasons for living straight edge.
Wouldn't having to justify why you're making a choice to someone be anti-punk in general? If someone is disagreeing with you for you choosing to be "straight edge" shouldn't the punk response to them be: "Fuck you"?
Additionally, if someone that is "straight edge" is telling someone else they should also be straight edge, isn't the response to them also "Fuck you"?
I would agree completely. But you know when kids have discovered politics they are righteous and annoying as fuck for a while until they gain other perspectives and learn to humble down. I know i was one back when the dinosaurs roamed.
