Talk:What exactly is a "Scene Kid" anyway?/@comment-67.243.90.208-20180403023813


 * sigh* What is it with all of these groups like Scene and Emo and Goth and everything? You don't have to feel like you're in with some kind of group to feel accepted and like you belong. I also must point out that according to the commenters and this wiki Scene kids are supposedly all about individuality and being yourself. Well, if that really is the case, why are you doing that by dressing and grooming like every other Scene kid and listening to some genres of music you might not even care for? What exactly are Scene kids held together by as members of a group? Liking a certain kind of music, or perhaps dressing ridiculously in the same manner? I highly doubt it is the latter, so why do Scene kids even take part in the latter? It's because of a desire of adolescents to belong. Adolescents, as you already know, are people within the strange grey area between childhood and adulthood— adults have all these hormones coursing through them but have learned through experience how to handle them and as a result they are stable, and children have no such hormones coursing through them to speak of and as a result they are stable, but adolescents have the hormones coursing through them like adults, but still reminiscent of children their thought process is still childish and immature and they don't yet know how to handle the new hormones, and thus they recieve the blunt ends of both adulthood and childhood (I believe it is also worth noting I am a younger teenager myself). They are still learning how to be people and how to be virtuous and wise, and thus they are controlled by unwise and unvirtuous impulses and desires that may confuse them, like the natural desire to feel like you belong or dare I say, "fit in". You see, Sceneism, Emoism, and the like are all supported by the common and largest metaphorical pillar of the desire to fit in. In the case of Sceneism a possible second, smaller pillar exists, and that is the love of a certain kind of music, but the first pillar is obviously and unarguably manifested in the dressing and grooming habits of Scene kids, and many other subgroups within the sociopolitical scheme of adolescents. Notice how there are only Scene kids, not Scene adults. That's because as these Scene kids grow into adulthood and some much earlier, they will realise that you don't have to be in with a group or a type of people to belong. You belong with your friends, your family, or possibly a significant other, not with some group of punk rock lovers who dress to look like walking fruit roll ups and constantly try to be "edgy" and "rebellious". Enough with the groups, we're all people, we're all made of the same stuff, and I don't care if you're a "poser" or not you aren't defined by the Scene kid mold or by the Scene kid style or music, you are defined by you. Don't dress a certain way because you're in with some group that dresses that certain way, don't listen to a certain kind of music just because of the same reason either, and this applies to almost everything. If you want to dress a certain way or listen to a certain kind of music or talk a certain way or anything, do it for YOU, not for some kind of group, or not because the group does it. You don't even need to be part of a "group"; clumping into groups and conforming to them under the mask of rebellion is just a natural and chiefly adolescent natural inclination, though it is a very unwise and regressive one. After my giant rant, I think it all boils down to this: The only two things you should identify with are yourself, and humanity