Comments on: http://wildhunt.org/blog/2005/11/embracing-darkness-i-wish-i-had-time.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:24:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Chas S. Clifton http://wildhunt.org/blog/2005/11/embracing-darkness-i-wish-i-had-time.html/comment-page-1#comment-244 Chas S. Clifton Sat, 26 Nov 2005 04:28:00 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2005/11/906.html#comment-244 So who is doing any longitudinal studies on these "older and wiser" members of dark subcultures? Sounds like a great research problem.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Now I'm like, "Enjoy yourselves while you can, kids." 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 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2005/11/embracing-darkness-i-wish-i-had-time.html/comment-page-1#comment-243 Jason Sat, 26 Nov 2005 01:31:00 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2005/11/906.html#comment-243 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. 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 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2005/11/embracing-darkness-i-wish-i-had-time.html/comment-page-1#comment-242 Chas S. Clifton Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:48:00 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2005/11/906.html#comment-242 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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Or something like that. 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.

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