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:	post by DestroyYouAlot at 2011-06-14 16:08:25

First off, it needs to be pointed out that black metal is a culture. To pretend otherwise implies that one either isn't versed in the material enough to know any better, or simply doesn't wish it to be the case. (And, let it be said, an awful lot of people deeply wish that this music _was_ free of any actual semantic content, so that they could have the luxury of listening to it without appearing to support something that actually _means_ anything.) A culture, albeit a fracticious one, comprised of hateful, intolerant, isolationists, but a culture nonetheless, and it's been that way since the "second wave" in Norway (and arguably before). And, while I'm totally ok with hidden knowledge (and black metal certainly shouldn't attempt to be "transparent" and lay open all its secrets to anyone who asks), this kind of dialogue does define the perception of a culture (even within itself). By no means would I ever let the surface perception of this define what I do, but I know from walking around with the weirdo neurology I've got that you do live in a world of other people's perceptions, whether they line up with yours or not. So I don't see why I'm supposed to just throw up my hands and say, "Fuck it - let the morons have it" because it's the polite thing to do.

Let bullshit be illuminated as what it is. I feel like the people who are the most invested having a critique-free environment are the ones who fear they'd have something to be critical of. I'd prefer to answer to any public attack than to rely on the whisper-behind-the-back method (the biggest advantage of which is that the party in question can't answer an accusation they're not aware of).

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