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By: Chas S. Clifton

Chas S. Clifton — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 04:28:00 +0000

So who is doing any longitudinal studies on these “older and wiser” members of dark subcultures? Sounds like a great research problem.Don’t get me wrong. If the whole Goth thing had been going when I was 17, I would have jumped in with all four feet.Now I’m like, “Enjoy yourselves while you can, kids.”

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 01:31:00 +0000

I think the older (and one would hope wiser) members of “dark” subcultures no longer hold tragically romantic notions about death, and instead appreciate an artistic/spiritual aesthetic that doesn’t deny the place of death in our culture.

By: Chas S. Clifton

Chas S. Clifton — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:48:00 +0000

I have a hypothesis: the older you get, the less you get all goth-romantic about Death. You’re busy thinking about all the things that you have to get done first.On the other hand, if you are 17 or so, you begin to realize in your bones that you are no longer “growing up” but instead are moving towards death. Yet death seems comfortably far away, so you can indulge in thinking about it.Or something like that.