Some time ago there was an acknowledgement and backlash to sub-culture in the uk (and in the u.s., thought it could've been all over, I was so depressed back then my awareness of, well, anything, seemed a miracle to me, fuck knows [how] I scraped that diploma). I remember standing outside a tiny bus station in yorkshire (waiting to be taken back to civilisation it seemed to me at the time) and reading a physical newspaper telling that another goth girl had had the living crap kicked out of her for.. dyed black hair? And I remember thinking 'this doesn't make sense' bc punks ('maybe they kick back harder') have been around forever (was born '86) but there's not been the same *sigh* this is not.... uh i mean ....

sub culture vs prime culture : the backlash caused by the internet. Suddenly the world began growing by communication, ideas blossomed, people started seeing that this Beautiful and Bountiful Land was being run by a community that we couldn't be but ashamed of, goths evolved. In the 90's it became publicly evident also, and people don't talk about this, that the UK method of doing things is quietly and behind closed doors (see: Enigma Machine and the sales of it after WW2, yeah after we'd cracked it we sold it as un-crackable). There is nothing by nature wrong with doing the most critical work outside of audience-awareness, it can be a method of ~soothing ruffled feathers~ and engaging future action with a dignity that comes of mystery. The trick is when something is being done outside of someone's awareness it can lend an illusion of privacy, lost as the audience becomes aware. Anything actioned is done, whether there's a public knowledge of it... if a tree falls in the forest.. yeah it makes a sound and even a tiny impact on everything around it. So I have this wild theory that maybe we suddenly became violently aware of sub-culture (all over again) because suddenly our subcultures were of a different size and shape than we expected.. Imagine you know the way to the hardware shop, it's three streets over and you know the route even though you haven't been there in five months. You go over two streets and find the roads have changed, they've been rearranged by new roads, one-ways and cul-de-sacs that weren't there before.. you would get lost (or use someone else's newer map....). Maybe we're all stupid (smart about some things but not always the thing in front of us) and we lash out when we don't understand something.. usually at something else because we don't understand why we feel like this. I hope this makes sense to someone.

I.. things to do, must go be a bit more active... thanks for reading/participating!

Oh this is very cool: scale one moon = one pixel.
The 'c' meteor icon at bottom right makes it scroll at lightspeed. Holding down right arrow goes much faster. But that's [very definitely] cheating.