Are you a Rasta?

[kakafrakka]

the thing about the creed singers face was very funny imo

 

[sufi]

There was a time when I thought rastas/rastafarianism was one of the coolest things ever, but somehow now I see it as terminally uncool. I don't know how that happened. I'm not saying I saw the light, I think I've gone astray.

I really like the lester bangs article about visiting Jamaica and trying to lose himself in the rastafarian ritual and failing. And how he gets across that people see them as these gentle hippies but they're actually fundamentalists.

There's obviously a powerful attraction to western cultureless people like me in something as fervent as rastafarianism - but also it's the fact the music is amazing and you get to smoke weed all day.

 

[shiels]

There was a time when I thought rastas/rastafarianism was one of the coolest things ever, but somehow now I see it as terminally uncool. I don't know how that happened. I'm not saying I saw the light, I think I've gone astray.

its because you've been led astray and become terminally uncool yes. you were a stoner student into granny-puncher dubstep so a religion with in-built anti-imperialism, weed smoking and deep appreciation of drumming is obv the coolest thing. then you get a few years older and wnat some money and the status struggle hits, and see that every white boy into it missed out al the commitment parts on diet, meditation, strict beliefs too