It comes down to what we mean by 'exploration of inner space', my rant was directed in particular at the crowd whose definition mostly includes staring at fluorescent objects, and have lost focus of, or never understood the point that the goal is ultimately advancement.
Nobody really likes candy ravers. hahahaha. You're so right about this, though, people doing that kinda stuff do give a bad rep to things they associate with that don't deserve the association.
However, it's of note to really know the history of that culture. The rave scene used to really be about being an antidote to the rowdy football hooligan alcohol based junk and rich thatcher child party scenes of the late 1980s. People thought that they were about to change the world by converting everyone into their culture of acceptance and positivity, kids weren't doing 10 caps of (speedy as fuckin' sonic the hedgehog?) E a night and instead had stuff like comics handed out to them encouraging them to realize the potential of the less-is-more deal with the stuff. Too soon the positive elements of the original culture became nullified by commercialization and things became legislated, as a result of what happened with the mass media (Which serves the interest of evil and nothing else if you ask me, but that's another story that you can read if you want to check out an excellent book entitled"Manufacturing Consent" by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman). From reading the over-reactive bullshit in the tabloids, people started joining the scene just as an excuse to get really fucked up on lots of drugs all the time. Therefore, the happenings in the scene went away from things like the KLF burning the 1,000,000 pounds made off of their music as an artistic statement and underground groups throwing free parties for the sake of the betterment of mankind, and it mostly all became vapid and actions associated with the culture either empty or destructive. The commercialization of it all encouraged people to follow stereotypes and out of this came all that stuff that most people would rather forget about the 90's, like the infantile-regressive sort of cute yet fucking irritating candy ravers and tekked-out junglists shuffling around in hoodies trying too hard to look tough. The same thing has happened with all recent countercultures: Commercialization has turned the common consensus around punk from an artistic exercise of provocation by completely soaking questionable societal norms with the piss of dichotomy into shit like "punky colour" brand hair dye that you can pick up at fucking wal-mart or "the motherfucking princess" avril lavigne. It turned the common consensus around hip-hop from it being the most pertinent form of poetry of the last half of the 20th century to bling-bling barf. It's turning today's idea around, uhh... "hipsters" (for lack of a better word off the top of my head) from indy culture into "big indy" with most people who associate themselves around it not really giving a fuck either way that they're not getting past the materialistic aspect of it all, just cause it's the cool thing to do. Going back to drugs, well, I'm about to write an entry about that.
Nobody really likes candy ravers. hahahaha. You're so right about this, though, people doing that kinda stuff do give a bad rep to things they associate with that don't deserve the association.
However, it's of note to really know the history of that culture. The rave scene used to really be about being an antidote to the rowdy football hooligan alcohol based junk and rich thatcher child party scenes of the late 1980s. People thought that they were about to change the world by converting everyone into their culture of acceptance and positivity, kids weren't doing 10 caps of (speedy as fuckin' sonic the hedgehog?) E a night and instead had stuff like comics handed out to them encouraging them to realize the potential of the less-is-more deal with the stuff. Too soon the positive elements of the original culture became nullified by commercialization and things became legislated, as a result of what happened with the mass media (Which serves the interest of evil and nothing else if you ask me, but that's another story that you can read if you want to check out an excellent book entitled"Manufacturing Consent" by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman). From reading the over-reactive bullshit in the tabloids, people started joining the scene just as an excuse to get really fucked up on lots of drugs all the time. Therefore, the happenings in the scene went away from things like the KLF burning the 1,000,000 pounds made off of their music as an artistic statement and underground groups throwing free parties for the sake of the betterment of mankind, and it mostly all became vapid and actions associated with the culture either empty or destructive. The commercialization of it all encouraged people to follow stereotypes and out of this came all that stuff that most people would rather forget about the 90's, like the infantile-regressive sort of cute yet fucking irritating candy ravers and tekked-out junglists shuffling around in hoodies trying too hard to look tough. The same thing has happened with all recent countercultures: Commercialization has turned the common consensus around punk from an artistic exercise of provocation by completely soaking questionable societal norms with the piss of dichotomy into shit like "punky colour" brand hair dye that you can pick up at fucking wal-mart or "the motherfucking princess" avril lavigne. It turned the common consensus around hip-hop from it being the most pertinent form of poetry of the last half of the 20th century to bling-bling barf. It's turning today's idea around, uhh... "hipsters" (for lack of a better word off the top of my head) from indy culture into "big indy" with most people who associate themselves around it not really giving a fuck either way that they're not getting past the materialistic aspect of it all, just cause it's the cool thing to do. Going back to drugs, well, I'm about to write an entry about that.