THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER - 131 - THE OLD SCHOOL

Back in the day, I recognized that the old school was best, in all of the subcultures I was into, from Punk to Metal to Hip Hop to Gaming. I remember Amp Live from Zion I coming to my mom’s house to pick up my brother Michael who was working with them & I was listening to Kraftwerk. “This is the old school Jam!” He said. I was surprised, but also I was stoked. There are some common ancestors that can bring us all together. While we all must compete & adapt to exist in the new & ever changing world, we need to have a strong foundation of things that never go bad. There has been so much jettisoning of all history, of anything over a certain age because there is a progressive mindset that thinks the utopian future comes from a destruction of the past. Most of them won’t say that explicitly, but that’s what’s going on. I don’t think you need to go back as far as when things were first created but when enough people are trying them out & innovating with them comfortably. There is a clear time when the cultural form is really ripe & productive. I could go through & tell you when those times were but that is not the point of this article. The point of this article is that in this time when everyone has access to all of history at the touch of their fingers it is really foolish to think that the only stuff worth paying attention to is from the last 10, 5, years. Every technologically advanced society has an aging population & things are dominated by people over a certain age. Less & less children are being born in general. My point is not to just revere things that are old, because there are plenty of old things, people, that are lame. My point is that if you pick & choose from the Golden Ages of history, you can build something new from the cream of the crop & not have to reinvent the wheel out of some stubborn, present-day chauvinism. There’s a lot of bullshit out there today & a lot of people are content with thinking that it is the only thing, but it’s not. History goes back endlessly, If you don’t view the past as a building block for the future you are an idiot.

x SEAN

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