Originally Posted By PARTY_GIRL
who cares if summers over, its time to plan some great winter parties, :)

Originally Posted By BASDINI
i just feel like the whole plur thing is (and really always was) really shallow and also just not very interesting,

it's idealistic, so naturally people like it, they also like it cause it's got a neat little acronym that is easy to say and remember, but i just don't think it's applicable at all,

i mean:

peace (even amongst those who chose NOT to be peaceful?)

love (even for those who don't deserve it?)

unity (with everyone? always? even say the 30 year old creepy guy who is trying to fuck the 15 year old high out of her tree on K and mdma?)

respect (even for those who clearly don't respect us or anything for that matter)

as a philosophy or a world view or an ideology, it's just, well, kinda weak. It doesn't have much to offer us. Worst of all it's just not very potable, what i mean is that it's really tough to take it outside of the rave scene (forget the rave scene, a single rave for that matter).

What baffles me is that no one ever really tried to articulate another philosophy for the rave scene in any serious sense, the only other serious contender came from Jungle and DnB kids who for a while had a sort of militant thing going on for a few years. The problem was that although this was interesting they couldn't figure out who or what they were so angry about, beyond vague ideas of 'burning Babylon down'. This has seemed to fade especially with the coming of dubstep, which doesn't have a philosophy at all and never will because it's the music of nihilism (both culturally and stylistically). It really is the music of people who don't believe in anything and don't want to believe in anything.

what was and is still fascinating is the lesser known step child of PLUR, that is the notion of 'keeping it real' which i believe could have and still can be the philosophy of the rave scene. If you want to write a project for school on something rave related write it on that.