scenes and subcultures

You are always internalizing the culture around you. Even when you wish you didn’t. So you better surround yourself with something you want inside—curate a culture.

Several theories have been proposed, some less plausible than others. The dullness of long, dark winters is a common suggestion. The melodic nature of the language is another. It has also been pointed out that Sweden has the highest concentration of choirs in the world — eight percent of the population are active singers. Then there is the fact

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Miss Kamala Harris would probably be distraught to know — fashion actually does not really exist within the context of all that came before. Right now, it exists like it fell out of a coconut tree: people can cherry pick visual styles that suit them and not really care about a music scene that it first came from or a movie that it is being

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Subcultures were the main creative cultural force from roughly 1975 to 2000, when they stopped working. Why?

Scenia do not start fully-formed. Instead, they evolve through three stages: communities, micro-scenia, and scenia. 

Community: a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common; a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.

Examples: early personal

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