its best to ignore it in the hopes no one else likes it and it fades from view

i remember when catcher in the rye was considered banned

kids would go out of their way to find it just because it was banned

The other thing is that censorship works only if people are willing to take part in it. As you said- back then people were not willing to do that so all atemps failed

and its a boring af book.

So yeah

It's like

Suppression just makes the communities you're trying to eradicate closer

Underground music is gonna absolutely blow up, which I'm excited for as an up-and-coming rock vocalist lmao

rock became mainstream and sort of died off.

need to bring back the old parents calling it satans music, make it cool again

oh wait, we have SJWs to call it bigot's music

My whole schtick with rock is like, it's lost its spirit nowadays

Most people who play rock that I've met in the Birmingham scene at least are all like

"I wanna be famous", "I want people to notice me"

Rock was about authenticity, being free to be who you are, embracing that outside of the mainstream

Purposeful counterculture to prove a point

It was intellectual, in some ways poetically and in some ways scholarly

It's all stoners and cokeheads, no substance

They like the scene and image but don't understand what it truly is

And do what you like, be free, that's the point of rock, but... be authentic

Stop being fake, stop focusing on the money

That's why rock died

Grunge made everyone too sad to care

Then everyone got stoned or OD'd

Now in my generation of rock, you have idiot anarchists, emos who aren't saying anything, or drugged-up posers. No inbetween, no exception, except POSSIBLY Greta Van Fleet who are actually very talented, and indie rockers who get ignored

And that's what I wanna do. Grab the world by the balls and tell em straight, "Fuck you, I reject what you're forcing me to be and do and say". These sons of bitches can play rock til the day they die but they'll never be rockstars, yknow?

I don't wanna play rock, I wanna be a rockstar. And that's what a rockstar was

Someone who was told their place and said "No"

/rant

TLDR Rockers stopped standing for freedom and started being illogical ideologues, apathetic wasters or sellout bitches. Not me

you know what is funny? i used to listen to a punk band that used to talk about people in real need, like farmers fucked over by corporate farms and the subsidies the government gives them, or poor people having trouble finding work.

used to cover everyone in the shit (Although they still had a pretty activist vibe)

but in the recent years and with trump elected, they joined the more fuck trump side and i'm just like "you are saying fuck you to the people you used to claim you wanted to help, wtf?"

They're sellout lefty crybabies with no principles, from the sounds of things

I don't agree with a lot of what Trump does

I think his denial of climate change is very startling

Or at least, his cabinet's

well a member or two were members of PETA so... lmao

But he did amazing for industry like he promised

LOL