I miss the 90s and early 2000s alternative culture
In liverpool we had a huge alternative culture scene, you'd see goths and hippies everywhere you looked.
Girls dressed in black with pink hair in stockings and giant stompers hanging outside of the mecca of Quiggins. Quiggins was the hub for all of us, it was a giant place with a bar, and shops for everything. Hair dyes, piercings, music, clothes, head shops, you name it. You'd smoke joints with random people outside and listen to awesome music, you'd always meet a new face, a new crush, every night was exciting and you never knew what was going to happen.
You didn't have the internet like today so you'd just hear a rumour about some event and turn up in the city, wander around asking other people who looked like you if they'd heard about it. You had a mobile phone that was just for emergencies and you didn't have internet. If you heard a song you liked you'd wonder what it was for years, you'd just go and see bands you'd never seen before.
Now since it closed down, since the old goth clubs closed you don't see them anymore at all. There's a handful of bars you might see people in leather jackets, metalheads and maybe the occasional goth girl but it's not like it used to be. It actually sucks, the internet partly killed alternative culture. People don't congregate anymore, the spirit of the city I knew has morphed into something else, like a lite version of it's former self. I feel like this is the same everywhere now.
Something precious was lost in this age of "connection", people really have disconnected more than ever, you had no other choice but to immerse yourself in the real world then, now we can just dabble.
I was talking about something similar with this guy who sells motorbikes and we both agreed, it's no wonder people are growing up more with anxiety and depression these days, when you barely participate in life and you sit at a screen all day you're bound to not be able to function well in the world. Who wants to read all the problems in the world every day? who can handle that?.
The question is, is there much to participate in anymore?. It seems like it's harder than ever to meet new people in a natural way, especially if you aren't socially attuned yet. Dating is harder than ever for everyone, I used to just go to the city and meet a cute girl and we'd meet up the next weekend, now it seems like that might not be there anymore for people?. That sense of adventure seems to be snuffed for many when everythings so convenient.
I dunno man, you guys really missed out and I wish things were more like they were in some ways. I'm in the process of disconnecting from my devices, I barely come here anymore unless I have something worth while to say, I'm only using my phone when necessary. Getting out of the digital handcuffs that are so comfortable.
Girls dressed in black with pink hair in stockings and giant stompers hanging outside of the mecca of Quiggins. Quiggins was the hub for all of us, it was a giant place with a bar, and shops for everything. Hair dyes, piercings, music, clothes, head shops, you name it. You'd smoke joints with random people outside and listen to awesome music, you'd always meet a new face, a new crush, every night was exciting and you never knew what was going to happen.
You didn't have the internet like today so you'd just hear a rumour about some event and turn up in the city, wander around asking other people who looked like you if they'd heard about it. You had a mobile phone that was just for emergencies and you didn't have internet. If you heard a song you liked you'd wonder what it was for years, you'd just go and see bands you'd never seen before.
Now since it closed down, since the old goth clubs closed you don't see them anymore at all. There's a handful of bars you might see people in leather jackets, metalheads and maybe the occasional goth girl but it's not like it used to be. It actually sucks, the internet partly killed alternative culture. People don't congregate anymore, the spirit of the city I knew has morphed into something else, like a lite version of it's former self. I feel like this is the same everywhere now.
Something precious was lost in this age of "connection", people really have disconnected more than ever, you had no other choice but to immerse yourself in the real world then, now we can just dabble.
I was talking about something similar with this guy who sells motorbikes and we both agreed, it's no wonder people are growing up more with anxiety and depression these days, when you barely participate in life and you sit at a screen all day you're bound to not be able to function well in the world. Who wants to read all the problems in the world every day? who can handle that?.
The question is, is there much to participate in anymore?. It seems like it's harder than ever to meet new people in a natural way, especially if you aren't socially attuned yet. Dating is harder than ever for everyone, I used to just go to the city and meet a cute girl and we'd meet up the next weekend, now it seems like that might not be there anymore for people?. That sense of adventure seems to be snuffed for many when everythings so convenient.
I dunno man, you guys really missed out and I wish things were more like they were in some ways. I'm in the process of disconnecting from my devices, I barely come here anymore unless I have something worth while to say, I'm only using my phone when necessary. Getting out of the digital handcuffs that are so comfortable.
