I wonder if drug use trends can be traced to economic conditions, as apparently hair-length can be.
Could acid be something people use in less economically sketchy times?
Something about our society now - coffee on every corner, mattress companies sponsoring podcasts, cocaine (and apparently crack) the drugs de jour... Thing aren't getting better, they're going to get worse, no room for naivety or utopianism.
That's the thing about a lot of 90s music, as opposed to 80s music. Like 60s music, a lot of it now sounds quaint and naive.
places like Switzerland have
big drug problems as we type too. uber rich middle to upper class kids on all kinds of shit every week. Zurich has it's 'needle park' right outside of the main train station. albeit they're on much higher quality shit than most of us are used to. acid and psychs are definitely around too, i think the deep web/modern techies/silicon valley types/burning man play a big role in this, but it tends to be the reserve of the higher educated...
maybe it always was? too many moving parts to really grasp it. there's definitely a naivete to psych inspired stuff, and as was discussed in a few other threads over the last year or so, a lot of it hasn't dated well at all. but there's something to it, man. some of it still stands as the highest art we dumb humans ever reached imho. all i know is that i fkn
felt those tracks the other day
re: the 90s
yeah that's the thing i think is important to remember, there was bad shit going on then too, but somehow people were in a different headspace, they had fight in em. since sometime around the millenium that's ended. i mean, thatcher was only just out of office. poll tax. gulf war. 80s residue. gazza's tears & loads more... but somehow the stars aligned, and for a good half decade or more which started before the 90s obv, there was an unprescedented creative boom with an attitude i don't know if we're likely to see again, any time soon at least. not from the well trained blobs of screen addicted flesh n bone younger than us anyway. it requires that fight, a zest for life, a rebeliousness which has been thoroughly kicked out of even the angriest of people and all that's left is us being turned against each other in an endless & hollow tribal feud. i think it's all very well orchestrated myself, but i don't wanna derail the thread with any of that. reality right now is an
actual headfuck if you're paying the slightest bit of attention. it pushes and pulls us against our will in all kinds of weird and awkward directions that deep down in our guts we know we should be fighting against, but what exactly is it? in the 90s it was pretty straight forward. the narrative was laid out nice and clear. that poll tax riot video posted the other day in the gilets jaunes thread shows you how people were looking out for each other back then. now people who show up to marches are there to get their witty signs posted and liked on instagram. fear is winning. confusion is the name of the game.