Topic: Дали СХЕ е тва което е?
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Another perspective on the edge
While the "3 Rules" version is what well... everyone thinks of when they hear straight edge (and those that don't seem to think it's some kind of gang thing), have you ever stopped to think about why say... the originators of Straight Edge think it's a horrible thing? It's because, by many accounts, Straight Edge was not in the beginning what it is now. There were no rules.. no restrictions... no living your life through a statement of negatives.
From a Minor Threat interview in Touch & Go zine:
"Ian: Like Straight Edge, people have taken it to an extreme...as far
as i'm concerned all we did was put out an idea... if people wanna
hear it as preaching if that's what they want. Straight edge to me
is someone who is alert enough to benefit from what he or she is
doing...
"Lyle: the drug and alcohol is only one side of it anyway, it's alot
more than that, there are other things that can sidetrack you...
"Ian: That's what "don't Fuck" means... alot of people think that to
be straight edge you can't drink, smoke, or have sex and that's
silly... what the don't fuck thing is that the whole getting laid
and getting head thing
"Lyle: living for sex
"Ian: following your penis around is fucking people up more than
anything"
As shown by this Minor Threat interview from shortly before the band broke up, they were already starting to feel quite unsettled at this monster they had created. They meant to find something to better themselves by and make themselves feel positive in a culture/world of obsession over intoxication/sex/what have you. Moderation was more of the "rule". Not letting any one thing - be it booze, "pussy", "dick", coke, skateboarding, music, or STRAIGHT EDGE, rule your life. Thinking about it - what better way to enjoy all the various things in the world than not putting a majority of your focus on one little sub-culture or product?
While maybe not as developed as this "article" might seem to make it, the ideas of the early Straight Edge "movement" seem by all accounts to more follow this than any "3 rules ideology".
In this version of straight edge, it is completely inconcievable that people would be beat up or disowned for "selling out". Which, in this version, wouldn't be drinking a beer on occasion, smoking a clove cigarette once, it would have to be truly selling yourself out, changing who you are to make a buck or fit in with a "cooler" crowd, no longer following your heart, your dreams, and pursuing your own personal passions. If that happened, the person was disowning you, and it wasn't worth worring about. Maybe some day the legions of straight edge bands dedicating their songs to "sell outs" will come to the same conclusion - that it doesn't matter. Maybe not.
Last edited by Guest (2008-01-24 23:29:44)