Friday, January 13, 2017

the beatniks became hippies, and the hippies became punks, and the punks became emos and ravers. then capitalism swooped in, and the counterculture stagnated as it stabilized into a set of markets. but, the current evolutionary end point for the beatnik dance parties is the rave scene. bongos have become drum machines; marijuana has become mdma.

hip-hop is in a different cultural heritage. i don't want to talk about appropriation; the reality is that it actually has essentially no appeal to white culture, because it is so inherently black. which isn't to say that white people shouldn't, but to say that they overwhelmingly don't want to. it has not and will not work it's in way into the above lineage, except in the form of an outside influence.