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Originally Posted by AshleyO
Punk seemed significant for a moment, but I kind of fail to see how Goth was ever important.
To the best of my recollection, I got in to goth at a young age because I felt alienated from my community. Ironically enough, I see how silly it was to play at being vampiric or some kind of dark tortured soul wearing black and kicking it with Bauhaus.
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Punk carried a political message, goth was apolitical, which to my mind makes it more important. "Minding not the times but the eternities" to paraphrase Schopenhauer.
Playing at being vampiric is silly yeah, but black is a perfectly valid choice of colour and Bauhaus made some very varied and interesting music with far more intellectual content than almost any other pop music I've come across, and not even in a disconnected way; the ideas are viscerally plugged into you in a way you wouldn't get seeing them dryly worded in a textbook.