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Originally Posted by Mick Ignis
Interests don't dictate personality. Yeah, there are some people who are like that. But very few, and those types of people can be found in any group. You can't really escape it.
The Goth culture takes a lot from dead eras. The Victorian, The Edwardian, The Ancient Egyptian, and yes, The Old Romantic. It's where a lot of the style comes from. We like paying homage to those beautiful, romantic times. It doesn't cut us off from reality. I'm a technology nut who's very political and involved with the pressing issues of today. It's fun to mix the old and new on occasion though.
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Yes, but you have to understand why it's old. That's where the seperation of reality comes, it's old and hackneyed because it's
not fresh anymore. You should be respecting these ideas, and tracing them back, and learning about word etymology, etc.
But you should take these ideas and make sure you do not repeat them, there is nothing original that you are doing if you are merely borrowing ideas from a dead era.
Don't you want to be original? Originality comes from the birth of new ideas, not the dredging of the worn bones of a deceased and rather interesting time period.